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PowerShell Tutorial Zone

As a Windows PowerShell Snapin, PowerGadgets lets you easily explore, visualize and monitor enterprise data from virtually any data source, including traditional databases and text files, with little or no coding involved.

First, lets get familiar with Windows PowerShell terms. A cmdlet (pronounced "command-let") is the smallest unit of functionality in the Windows PowerShell and it is directly analogous to the built-in commands in other shells. With Windows PowerShell, most commands are very simple and very small, hence the term cmdlet. A cmdlet is referred to by a verb and noun pair, separated by a "-". For example: get-process.

Windows PowerShell provides a new conceptual model for "piping" or command-to-command communication that is based on .NET objects, rather than text. PowerGadgets read directly from the properties of the objects that cmdlets emit to construct a graphical representation on your desktop. So, before a PowerGadgets cmdlet creates a visual gadget, you first must obtain data from a desired source. For example: get-process | out-chart.

To introduce you to these concepts and other PowerGadgets techniques, we have created a series of movies that will guide you through your first PowerShell/PowerGadgets scripts.

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Video Tutorials

• invoke-sql cmdlet | 1:42 Mins

  Illustrates the use of PowerGadgets invoke-sql cmdlet to retrieve information from a SQL Server 2005 database. You can also monitor database data at real-time with PowerGadgets.

• get-process cmdlet | 1:22 Mins

  Use PowerShell's get-process cmdlet and quickly inspect your system processes. Even use the chart to kill processes by piping the kill cmdlet after the out-chart cmdlet.

• Create Map Gadgets | 1:12 Mins

  Import information from a CSV file to plot election results in a US map. PowerGadgets provides a full library of US maps including 3-digit zip-code, 5-digit zip-code and counties. In addition, you can export this map to a file or any other Windows Productivity tool such as Microsoft Word or PowerPoint.

• Monitor via WMI | 2:25 Mins

  You can easily obtain any WMI object and display it on a radial gauge that refreshes every second. In this case, we are retrieving the Total Processor Time. You can monitor virtually any system information with PowerGadgets and WMI.

• Chart Templates | 2:40 Mins

  Create chart templates with the PowerGadgets Creator User Interface.