Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition

Chapter 10. Metaprogramming with scriptblocks and dynamic code

This chapter covers

• Scriptblocks
• Creating and managing objects
• Creating code dynamically
• Steppable pipelines

Philosophy have I digested, The whole of Law and Medicine, From each its secrets I have wrested, Theology, alas, thrown in. Poor fool, with all this sweated lore, I stand no wiser than I was before.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Faust

Greek letters are cool ...

Not actually a quote from Beavis and Butthead

Chapters 6 through 9 covered the basic elements of programming in PowerShell and introduced modules as a way of aggregating your code into reusable pieces. In this chapter, we’ll take things to the next level and talk about metaprogramming, the term used to describe ...