In Wrox's Professional PowerShell Programming, readers are treated to a guided tour of PowerShell from a programmer's perspective as Microsoft PowerShell development team member Arul Kumaravel skillfully guides readers through all the ins and outs of the PowerShell SDK, and shows them how to create extensions to PowerShell and integrate PowerShell capabilities into their own applications. Coverage includes:

• Extending PowerShell Engine with Snapins
• Adapter Implementations
• Developing Cmdlets
• Developing Providers - Drive, item, navigation, container Providers and more
• Hosting PowerShell Engine in applications
• Creating Applications that Use a Custom Host
• Extending Object Types and Formatting
• and more.

Companion website at Wrox.com includes complete source code downloads.