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This article is part of "Manage With the Windows Shell" on the Enterprise .NET Community (TheServerSide.Net) ... and it's a great article on how to write Shell Extensions etc in C#

Run PowerShell as the internal shell within Emacs. Note: there's a good link on here to a PowerShell script syntax file, and lots of .net-related emacs content...

Mono's C# Shell ... cute, but no PowerShell ;-)

.Net finally gets built-in command-line parsing in 4.0 -- and it matches PowerShell's command-line syntax power!

PowerShell is Microsoft's task automation framework, consisting of a command-line shell, an integrated scripting environment (ISE), a scripting language built on .NET Framework, an API allowing you to host PowerShell in your .NET applications, and it is a distributed automation platform. PowerShell provides full access to COM and WMI, enabling you to perform tasks on both local and remote Windows systems. PowerShell is a new breed platform for automation, in that it solves administration and adaptability challenges by seamlessly integrating the .NET Framework. It's good for developers, administrators, testers and more. Based on .NET, the tool drives down costs, while providing developers and administrators a simple and enterprise-ready way to automate, measure and improve all of their processes.

How to handle Events in PowerShell (another example of things you just can't do in a string based shell?) a GREAT example of how using PowerShell leads to .Net programming (and how knowing .NET programming translates into knowing PowerShell).

cd is so primitive

Shell scripts are widely used in the UNIX world. They're excellent for speeding up repetitive tasks and simplifying complex execution logic. They can be as simple as a set of commands, or they can orchestrate complex tasks. In this tutorial, we'll learn more about the Bash scripting language by writing an example script step-by-step.