推荐工具: PowerShell Analyzer

开发代号为Monad的Windows PowerShell, 是Microsoft基于.NET平台为Windows环境所开发的一种脚本语言, 类似于*nix环境的Shell Script, 原是用以替代Windows环境中的command prompt, 从PowerShell这个名字也可以猜出来, 致力于成为Windows的Shell环境, 但是后来说它只是技术上的扩充. 其目标是: 让管理员可以通过Windows PowerShell做任何在图形界面下所能做的事情. 现Windows PowerShell已经推出了面向Windows XP, Windows Server 2003和Windows Vista的1.0版本.

而PowerShell Analyzer的目标, 据其官方说法:

PowerShell Analyzer is a rich interactive environment for Windows PowerShell. Its goal is to be the PowerShell host of choice for IT professionals and system administrators. It has all the typical editor and IDE functionality that you would expect when working on a modern language, but it focuses on the real time interactive experience as if you were at the console, helping you compose the commands you want to use, and also giving you rich graphical visualization of the results. PowerShell may seem to just return text like the average Unix shell, but in reality, it is returning rich self describing Dotnet objects. PowerShell Analyzer not only helps you with the INPUT, but also with the output. It shows you the properties of the rich objects that the commands return, as well as specific visualizers to help you interact with output such as XML, HTML, charts, tables, and hierarchical data structures.

从Shell环境, 又返回到IDE环境, 这是否背离了Windows PowerShell设计的初衷还真是见仁见智的事情. 现在PowerShell Analyzer的版本是beta 4, 截图如下:

参考资源:

• 易學易用的 Windows PowerShell(Microsoft台湾社区)(繁体)
• Windows PowerShell Team blog(英文)
• Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter(英文)
• Monad Manifesto – the Origin of Windows PowerShell(英文)
• PowerShell下载
• PowerShell Analyzer下载