{"id":8431,"date":"2007-03-01T21:18:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T21:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2007\/03\/01\/improved-powershell-grammar-documentation\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:16:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:16:53","slug":"improved-powershell-grammar-documentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/improved-powershell-grammar-documentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Improved PowerShell grammar Documentation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Payette is a co-designer of the PowerShell language and the development lead for its implementation.  From that, you might guess that his book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manning.com\/payette\/\">Windows PowerShell in Action<\/a> would provide a great explanation of the language and how to use it \u2013 you&#8217;d be right.\n<\/p>\n<p>In the past, we&#8217;ve posted a PowerShell grammar document but a number of you have provided feedback that it wasn&#8217;t as helpful as it could be.  Bruce has worked with his publisher, Manning Press, to rectify that situation by posting <strong><em>Appendix C:  The PowerShell grammar<\/em><\/strong> on the website (see the link above).  This chapter provides the PowerShell grammar annotated with notes and examples to help explain what&#8217;s happening.\n<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks Bruce and Manning Press for making this available.\n<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]<br \/>Windows PowerShell\/MMC Architect<br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a><br \/>Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Payette is a co-designer of the PowerShell language and the development lead for its implementation. From that, you might guess that his book: Windows PowerShell in Action would provide a great explanation of the language and how to use it \u2013 you&#8217;d be right. In the past, we&#8217;ve posted a PowerShell grammar document but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Bruce Payette is a co-designer of the PowerShell language and the development lead for its implementation. From that, you might guess that his book: Windows PowerShell in Action would provide a great explanation of the language and how to use it \u2013 you&#8217;d be right. In the past, we&#8217;ve posted a PowerShell grammar document but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}