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Chapter 2. Running commands

Figure 2.1. The ISE defaults to a three-pane layout including command input, output, and script editing.

Figure 2.2. PSDrive providers adapt different forms of storage so they look like disk drives within PowerShell

Chapter 4. The pipeline: connecting commands

Figure 4.1. The output of Get-Process is a table with several columns of information.

Figure 4.2. Viewing the exported CSV file in Windows Notepad

Chapter 8. Formatting—and why it’s done on the right

Figure 8.1. Locating the Process view in Windows Notepad

Figure 8.2. Locating a DefaultDisplayPropertySet in Notepad

Figure 8.3. Creating an auto-sized table of processes

Figure 8.4. Reviewing services displayed in list form

Figure 8.5. Displaying process names in a wide list

Figure 8.6. Creating a custom, calculated table column

Figure 8.7. The results of the Out-GridView cmdlet

Figure 8.8. Formatting cmdlets produce special formatting instructions, which aren’t meaningful to humans.

Figure 8.9. Putting two types of objects into the pipeline at once can confuse PowerShell’s formatting system.

Chapter 11. Tackling Windows Management Instrumentation

Figure 11.1. Using the WMI Explorer to locate a WMI class

Figure 11.2. Reviewing the available instances for the Win32_Desktop class

Figure 11.3. Finding WMI documentation on the MSDN Library website

Chapter 13. Working with bunches of objects, one at a time

Figure 13.1. Looking up return values for a WMI method’s results