Introduction to Psake

Syntax

Task - main function to execute a step of your build script
Depends - property that specify what the current step depends upon
default - there must always be a default task that will get executed if no initial task is specified
FormatTaskName - specifies how each step is displayed in the result window.

Remarks

psake is a build automation tool written in PowerShell, and is inspired by Rake (Ruby make) and Bake (Boo make). It is used to create builds using dependency pattern. Documentation available here

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Introduction to psake:

* Introduction to Psake

* Basic outline

* FormatTaskName example

* Run Task conditionally

* ContinueOnError

Table Of Contents

0 Getting started

1 Loops

2 Operators

3 Using ShouldProcess

4 PowerShell classes

5 Switch statement

6 Working with objects

7 Using existing static classes

8 Basic set operations

9 PowerShell functions

10 Sending email

11 Handling secrets and credentials

12 PowerShell Remoting

13 PowerShell Streams, debug, verbose, warning, error output

14 Variables in PowerShell

15 Communicating with RESTful APIs

16 Working with the PowerShell pipeline

17 PowerShell Background Jobs

18 Return behavior in PowerShell

19 XML

20 Introduction to psake

21 Progress bar

22 Strings

23 TCP communication

24 SharePoint module

25 Aliases

26 Automatic variables

27 Environment variables

28 PowerShell profiles

29 Enforcing script pre-requisites

30 Using the help system

31 Splatting

32 Desired state configuration

33 Signing scripts

34 Security and cryptography

35 CSV parsing

36 Introduction to Pester

37 Modules scripts and functions

38 PowerShell.exe command-line

39 Common parameters

40 Parameter sets

41 Regular Expressions

42 PowerShell dynamic parameters

43 WMI and CIM

44 GUI in PowerShell

45 Conditional logic

46 URL encode/decode

47 MongoDB

48 Running executables

49 Error handling

50 HashTables

51 ActiveDirectory module

52 SQL queries

53 Automatic variables #2

54 Package management

55 Cmdlet naming

56 Built-in variables

57 Creating DSC class-based resources

58 PowerShell modules

59 PowerShell workflows

60 How to downloaded latest artifact from artifactory

61 Calculated properties

62 Special operators

63 Anonymize IP v4 and v6

64 Comment-based help

65 AWS S3

66 AWS Rekognition

67 PSScriptAnalyzer

68 Naming conventions

69 Embedding managed code (C#, VB)

70 Archive module

71 Infrastructure automation

72 Scheduled tasks module

73 ISE module

74 Recipies

75 Contributors