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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

Properties and methods


In Chapter 4, Working with Objects in Powershell, the idea of using properties and methods was introduced. Get-Member was used to list each of these.

Properties for objects derived from .NET classes, such as those for the System.Text.StringBuilder class, are documented on MSDN:

Similarly, methods are described in detail, often with examples of usage (in C#, VB, F#, and so on):

These methods may be used as long as the argument lists can be satisfied. The 4th item on the list is difficult to leverage in PowerShell, as Char* represents a pointer to an array of Unicode characters. A pointer is a reference to a location in memory, something not often seen in PowerShell and beyond the scope of this chapter.