Writing PowerShell scripts are powerful and productive, but building tools for PowerShell to extract and manipulate the script itself can make you more productive.

In this talk I take a tour of the Windows PowerShell parser and AST (abstract syntax tree) showing how it can be used to make your job easier and ways to create tools to make you more productive.

• PowerShell built-in Tokenizer
• Expand-Alias works in PowerShell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment)
• {}.Ast get the PowerShell syntax tree
• Select-ViaAst simlilar to Select-String but more powerful
• PSharp a productivity tool that makes PowerShell ISE better
  • GitHib Repo and Video

Recorded Video.