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Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

By : Chris Dent
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Book Image

Mastering PowerShell Scripting - Fourth Edition

5 (1)
By: Chris Dent

Overview of this book

PowerShell scripts offer a convenient way to automate various tasks, but working with them can be daunting. Mastering PowerShell Scripting takes away the fear and helps you navigate through PowerShell's capabilities.This extensively revised edition includes new chapters on debugging and troubleshooting and creating GUIs (online chapter). Learn the new features of PowerShell 7.1 by working with parameters, objects, and .NET classes from within PowerShell 7.1. This comprehensive guide starts with the basics before moving on to advanced topics, including asynchronous processing, desired state configuration, using more complex scripts and filters, debugging issues, and error-handling techniques. Explore how to efficiently manage substantial amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell 7.1. This book will help you to make the most of PowerShell's automation features, using different methods to parse data, manipulate regular expressions, and work with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Index

Members

All types have members. Members represent data, or dictate the behavior of the object represented by a type.

In .NET, the members are described in the C Sharp (C#) programming guide on Microsoft Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/classes-and-structs/members.

PowerShell also adds members; these member types are also described on Microsoft Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.management.automation.psmembertypes.

This section focuses on a small number of members used when working with .NET types:

  • Constructors
  • Methods
  • Properties

The Event member is explored in Chapter 15, Asynchronous Processing.

The ScriptProperty and ScriptMethod property types are specific to PowerShell and may be added with the Add-Member command. These member types are outside of the scope of this chapter.

Constructors are one possible way of creating an instance of a type.

Constructors

A constructor is...