Chapter 28. Never the end
Welcome to the end! Well, the end of the book—this is just the beginning of your career as a PowerShell toolmaker!
At the outset of this book, we defined toolmaking as a second kind of PowerShell audience. You’re now a part of that audience; you’re no longer constrained to using the tools and commands provided to you by others but can instead combine those to make your own task-specific tools. Whether those are tools you’ll use on your own or ones you’ll delegate to other less-technical or less-privileged users, you’re now in a position to harness the shell to automate tasks within your environment.
What’s next? The third PowerShell audience—after tool users and tool makers—is developers. Those are the folks who use Visual Studio to develop applications that host PowerShell and harness its powers or who make more complex tools by programming in C#, Visual Basic, or another .NET Framework language. Frankly, we find that we can usually get just about anything we need done using the techniques we’ve presented in this book.