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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By : Brenton J.W. Blawat
Book Image

Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting (Second Edition) - Second Edition

By: Brenton J.W. Blawat

Overview of this book

PowerShell scripts offer a handy way to automate various chores. Working with these scripts effectively can be a difficult task. This comprehensive guide starts from scratch and covers advanced-level topics to make you a PowerShell expert. The first module, PowerShell Fundamentals, begins with new features, installing PowerShell on Linux, working with parameters and objects, and also how you can work with .NET classes from within PowerShell. In the next module, you’ll see how to efficiently manage large amounts of data and interact with other services using PowerShell. You’ll be able to make the most of PowerShell’s powerful automation feature, where you will have different methods to parse and manipulate data, regular expressions, and WMI. After automation, you will enter the Extending PowerShell module, which covers topics such as asynchronous processing and, creating modules. The final step is to secure your PowerShell, so you will land in the last module, Securing and Debugging PowerShell, which covers PowerShell execution policies, error handling techniques, and testing. By the end of the book, you will be an expert in using the PowerShell language.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Static properties


Properties require an instance of a type to be created before they can be accessed. Static properties, on the other hand, do not.

A static property is a piece of data; in some cases this includes constant values, associated with class definitions which can be retrieved without creating an object instance.

MSDN shows static properties using an S symbol in the left-most column. For example, the System.Text.Encoding class has a number of static properties denoting different text encoding types, shown in the following screenshot:

PowerShell is also able to list the static properties for a type (or class) using Get-Member with the Static switch:

PS> [System.Text.Encoding] | Get-Member -MemberType Property -Static
TypeName: System.Text.Encoding
Name             MemberType Definition
----             ---------- ----------
ASCII            Property   static System.Text.Encoding ASCII {get;}
BigEndianUnicode Property   static System.Text.Encoding BigEndianUnicode {get;}
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