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I love PowerShell.

Simple as that.  This is the first in a series of blogs which will explore the amazing technology PowerShell.  This 'command' language works with the .NET framework to allow for just about anything a .NET programmer can think of.  I am going to start at the very beginning since that is where I am at right now!  If you don't have any .NET programming experience you will still be able to follow along with these examples but as I progress in my understanding of the language and these blogs get more advanced you will be in the dark on a lot of the power in PowerShell.  It's not too late, the .NET framework is only getting better, release by release!  The best way I know of to learn the .NET framework and how to use it is via Instructor Led Training, you may as well go to the best school in the country (in my and several others opinion). 
Once you get a class or two under your belt I suggest involvement with a local user group.  I was so lucky to begin here in Phoenix where we have the AZGroups run by Scott Cate and Lorin Thwaits it's free and fun and EXTREMELEY informative!

Last but definitely not least you can take FREE online Training via Microsoft Learning.  It's an unbelievable resource and it's free.  If you come from a php or Java background you can learn ASP.NET very quickly with the above mentioned steps.

Check out the Microsoft Learning Site Here!!  In this case there is a such thing as a free lunch and you should definitely get it while it hot!!!

Well here goes.

Lesson 1:  Creating A File and Writing Text To It.

Step 1: Create a folder on your C drive named PowerShellTesting.

Step 2: Open up PowerShell.  (you can download it here).

Start > All Programs > Windows PowerShell 1.0 > Windows PowerShell

Step 3: In the Command Window, Change Directory to the PowerShellTesting Folder (from the C drive) with the following command: cd PowerShellTesting

Step 4: Use the write-output command to write 'Hello World!' out to a file which will be created with this command called foo.txt:

  Type in this command: write-output Hello World! > foo.txt

Step 5: Open up the folder PowerShellTesting and verify that a file 'foo.txt' now exists.

Step 6: Open up the foo.txt file and look inside!

That's it!

It's that easy.

We are just getting started, check back soon or subscribe I will be posting at least bi-weekly.  There will be a lot of PowerShell related suprises here over the next few years!