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Windows PowerShell Cookbook, 1e
by Lee Holmes

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UNCONFIRMED errors and comments from readers:



{xix}Foreward section p2.1 last para - code sample (http://safari.oreilly.com/9780596528492/foreword) ;
$objShell = New-Object?com Shell.Application

should be

$objShell = New-Object ?comobject Shell.Application


(59) top of page;
"...can let you to omit" should be reworded for clarity.


[211]Example 12-1;
The listing provided is completely different from the version of the Program that is provided on the samples file.


{244} last line;
Line reads
Set-Alias gii Get-InvocationInfo

Should read
Set-Alias gii ./Get-InvocationInfo


(270) Discussion;
"Example 15.6 illustrates working with a performance counter from a specific category."

Example 15.6 is for COM scripting, not performance counters. I guess the author meant to recipe 15.8.


(399) Recipe 23.16, 3rd paragraph (Discussion);
The discussion says:

To see whether you have removed the user successfully, see Section 23.18, "List a User's Group 
Membership."

However the current solution is about ADDing a user to a group, not removing it. Therefore the discussion 
should say "to see whether you have added the user successfully, ..."


{index} throughout;
Several online sample programs are missing from the index:

ConvertFrom-FahrenheitWithoutFunction.ps1
ConvertFrom-FahrenheitWithFunction.ps1
ConvertFrom-FahrenheitWithLibrary.ps1
Get-ScriptPerformanceProfile.ps1
Grant-RegistryAccessFullControl.ps1
Invoke-ComplexScript.ps1
Invoke-DemonstrationScript.ps1
Invoke-LongRunningOperation.ps1
InvokeTemplateCmdletCommand.cs
LibraryDirectory.ps1
LibraryInputComparison.ps1
LibraryInvocation.ps1
LibraryPrompt.ps1
LibraryProperties.ps1
Read-InputBox.ps1
RulesWizardExample.cs p. 283-285.

Search-WmiClass.ps1 (NOTE: this is the name of the online sample program; Search-WmiNamespace.ps1, which 
does not exist in online examples, is the name of this file in the book.) p. 258-261