A friend of mine found this blog yesterday and commented on “PowerShell Tools and Books That I Use“. I thought that it would be good to update the list since it’s almost 2 years old. The changes are mostly incremental: version changes, a few new items, a few I don’t use much anymore.
Without further ado, here we go, now with linky-goodness.
Tools I Use, note that these are all free:
- PowerShell ISE, I know it’s part of the install, but I use it a lot.
- PowerGUI Script Editor (I still haven’t gotten the hang of PowerGUI itself)
- PowerShell Community Extensions 2.0 (PSCX)
- SQL PowerShell Extensions 2.3 (SQLPSX)
- PrimalForms Community Edition (free registration required). Download under “Free Tools/32-bit”.
Books:
- PowerShell in Action, 2nd Edition by Bruce Payette (just released yesterday, 5/18!)
- Professional Windows PowerShell Programming: Snapins, Cmdlets, Hosts and Providers by Arul Kumaravel et. al. (PowerShell 1.0, but still has good info about building hosts)
- Mastering PowerShell by Dr. Tobias Weltner
- PowerShell in Practice by Richard Siddaway
In addition to these, there are any number of blogs, I really need to update my list, that I subscribe to in Google Reader. Also, there’s a very active community on Stack Overflow that will usually be able to provide direction if you’re not sure what’s going on.
As I said the last time, there are lots of other tools and books, but these are the ones I keep coming back to.
Let me know if you think I missed something super-important.
Mike