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Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix by sudioStudio64 on Sunday June 07, 2015 @08:21AM (#9674353)
PS will take the text output of any command line program and turn it into .Net strings that can then be manipulated like any other object. You can write PS cmdlets in C/C++, there is an SDK. It will also marshal COM objects into and out of the appropriate .Net types.

When dealing with output from command line apps I usually take the time to parse out the data I want from the strings and turn them into strong types if I'm writing a script...If I'm just trying to get something done with a command prompt I just do whatever gets it done the fastest.

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Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix by cremno on Sunday June 07, 2015 @08:54AM (#9674456)
>You can write PS cmdlets in C/C++, there is an SDK.

Are you sure? AFAIK you have to use C++/CLI which isn't C++ and the official examples are either C# or VB.NET: https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/site/search?f[0].Type=Topic&...

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Re:Unix is not an acceptable Unix by sudioStudio64 on Sunday June 07, 2015 @09:09AM (#9674510)
In the 2012 R2 time frame Jeff Snover said that they opened up cmdlet authoring to subsystem teams to use C++ to build cmdlets. Maybe they haven't released it yet?

That may mean that you have to implement at least some part of it as a .Net class. That may mean that they are doing COM components that inherit certain interfaces...it may mean that they are doing PInvoke...to be honest I haven't looked into it. It may be that it's still internal. Huh. I should look that up.

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