Chapter 5. Adding to the MSH Toolkit

We covered a lot of new ground in the preceding chapters that focused on exploration in interactive mode. In the examples that follow in this chapter, we'll step back and look at some of the plumbing of MSH that makes it all possible. We'll cover some of the generic cmdlets in more detail, discuss how data can be persisted to and retrieved from a filesystem, and take a deeper look at exactly what a pipeline object is and how the .NET Framework Class Library can provide an extra dimension of functionality.