Datasheet

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WHAT IS POWERSHELL, AND WHY DO YOU NEED IT?
with the Get-PSBreakpoint cmdlet for any of your PowerShell scripts. Figure 1.8
shows an example of a debugging session from the PowerShell console.
FIGURE 1.8 Debugging session in PowerShell
To learn more about the ISE, see Chapter 2 and Chapter 5. Chapter 2 shows you
how to install the ISE, which may not be installed by default. Chapter 5 shows how
to use this tool when working with PowerShell scripts.
Another way PowerShell leverages the Windows GUI is with the output cmdlet
Out-GridView .  is cmdlet allows you to take the output from a PowerShell com-
mand and display it in a Windows Explorer–style window, which not only displays
your data but also allows you some interaction such as sorting and quickly  ltering
the data. For example, if you ran the command
Get-Process | Out-GridView ,
your results would look similar to Figure 1.9.
You can click any of the column headings in the
Out-Gridview window, and the
content will be sorted. You can also quickly  lter the data by either adding criteria
or typing in the Filter text box. Chapter 4 takes a look at the Out-GridView cmdlet
as well as other ways to work with data from your PowerShell commands.
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