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WHAT IS POWERSHELL, AND WHY DO YOU NEED IT?
PowerShell with a GUI
 ere was no built-in GUI in PowerShell 1.0, so you had only the command console
for your PowerShell session.  ere were third-party tools you could use, such as
PowerGUI ( http://powergui.org/index.jspa ).
With PowerShell 2.0, Microso added new features to take advantage of the GUI.
 e following are two of the main ways you can use PowerShell’s GUI features:
▶ Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE)
▶ Out-GridView
 e ISE shown in Figure 1.2 is a new GUI front-end application console for
PowerShell. However, the primary bene t of the ISE is to create, edit, and debug
PowerShell scripts.  e ISE provides an easy-to-use, syntax-highlighted way to work
with your scripts, as shown in Figure 1.6.
FIGURE 1.6 ISE with a script
 ere are debugging tools built in to PowerShell 2.0. Scripts are created in many
di erent tools, from the ISE to Notepad, and scripters have used a variety of
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