[PowerShell] GA of PowerShell Crescendo

Hello everyone,

GA of PowerShell Crescendo has been announced yesterday.

If you didn’t heard about Crescendo, it is a « a development accelerator enabling you to rapidly build PowerShell cmdlets that leverage existing command-line tools. »

The GA includes these keys features :

• Define cmdlets from simple key/value statements in a JSON file
• Support for modular design – cmdlet definitions can be in a one or more JSON files
• A JSON schema that helps you create your Crescendo configuration using IntelliSense and tooltips
• Three styles of output handling code allowing you to separate your code from the cmdlet definitions for easier debugging and development
• Privilege elevation mechanisms in Windows, Linux, and macOS
• Crescendo generates a PowerShell script module ready for deployment
• While Crescendo requires PowerShell 7 or higher for authoring configurations, the generated module can run on Windows PowerShell 5.1 and higher
• Example configurations for you to copy and reuse
• Experimental Help parsers that provide proof-of-concept examples for auto-generating cmdlet configurations

For more information about Crescendo :

• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/announcing-powershell-crescendo-general-availability-ga/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.crescendo/?view=ps-modules#:~:text=Crescendo%20is%20a%20development%20accelerator,elevation%2C%20and%20integrated%20help%20information.