Huddled Masses

So, the Windows PowerShell 2.0 Software Development Kit is basically a collection of samples, and it has been released separately from the Windows Platform SDK for a change, making the download a tiny 2.35MB …

There are lots of examples in there in C# (no other languages), and honestly, some of them ought to make it into PSCX or some other project where people could grab pre-compiled versions

• A Template for creating PSProviders, and a sample PSProvider (for Access databases).
• A sample of participating in Transactions (a set of “transacted comment” cmdlets for creating comments that go along with a transaction).
• Example cmdlets: Select-Object, Select-String, Get-Process, Stop-Process
• Dealing with issues with Serialization in PowerShell
• PowerShell Eventing:
  • Deriving from ObjectEventRegistrationBase to create Register-FileSystemEvent
• Receiving notifications from PowerShell Events on remote computers.
• Hosting APIs, including (among others):
• Restricted runspaces
• Runspace pools
• Remote runspaces (and remote runspace pools)
• Running commands in parallel or sequentially
• Calling Cmdlets and passing parameters

• Reproducing the default PowerShell.exe output

Honestly, if you’re a developer that’s been wondering about learning to code cmdlets, or host PowerShell as a scripting engine, now’s the time.

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