The Hidden keyword hides properties and methods (and other members, like events) in a PowerShell class. When a member is hidden, you can still view and change it, but the Get-Member cmdlet doesn’t display it without the Force parameter and the hidden members are not available to auto-completion features, such as PrimalSense and IntelliSense. You […]
Category: PowerShell 5.0
Enumerated Types in Windows PowerShell 5.0
Follow @juneb_get_help [Update: The original post referred to “enums” as “enumerators” when, in fact, they are “enumerated types.” By contrast, enumerators allow you to process items one at a time. Many thanks to Windows PowerShell MVP Dave Wyatt (@msh_Dave) for the correction.] Enums have always been a part of Windows PowerShell, because they’re an important part […]
Find variables with class
Follow @juneb_get_help I’ve been playing with the Windows PowerShell 5.0 preview and especially with its new class feature. After I create my class, I often create several instances of the class and experiment with them in my session. For example, I created a Wine class and then created several instances of my wine class. I […]
Beyond custom objects: Create a .NET class
In yesterday’s blog post, I used the Select-String cmdlet to capture the table of keywords and references from the about_language_keywords help topic and then used the new ConvertFrom-String cmdlet in the Windows PowerShell 5.0 preview to convert each row of the table into a custom object (PSCustomObject). The custom object worked quite well. I could search, sort, format, and […]
