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copied!<blockquote> <p>Is it "worthwhile"?</p> </blockquote> <p>Absolutely. Here are number of reasons why.<br /></p> <ol> <li>More and more Microsoft products are based-on PowerShell - e.g. Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server 2008, etc.<br /></li> <li>PowerShell can access Microsoft .NET.</li> <li>Easy to learn - You only need few commands to explore capabilities of PowerShell - e.g.) Get-Command, Get-Help, Get-Member, etc.</li> <li>Most of commands are aliased and mapped in a way that they are similar to DOS or *NIX shell commands - e.g.) "ls" and "dir" are aliases for "Get-ChildItem", "cd" for "Set-Location"</li> <li>It's a great developer's tool - Since PowerShell can access .NET library, you can prototype some of your .NET functionalities in PowerShell</li> <li>You can navigate around Registry, Certificate, Environment Variables, etc as if they are file system - You use the same command you use in FileSystem to navigate around - e.g.) cd HKLM:\</li> </ol> <p><strong>Drawbacks:</strong><br /></p> <ol> <li>PowerShell version 1.0 does not support Remoting (supported in 2.0) and creating a new thread(using System.Threading.Thread, but will support background jobs in 2.0)<br /></li> <li>Learning curve can be long if you are not used to C#/Java based language<br /></li> <li>It's hard to create generic .NET objects <ul> <li>e.g.) creating a generic <code>List<int></code> collection is like following</li> </ul></li> </ol> <blockquote> <p>$l = new-Object System.Collections.Generic.List``1[[System.Int32]]</p> </blockquote>

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