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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 methods


As static properties, static method do not require that an instance of a class is created.

MSDN shows static methods using an S symbol in the left-most column. For example, the System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface class has a number of static methods. The first of these is shown in the following screenshot:

PowerShell is also able to list these methods using Get-Member with the Static switch:

PS> [System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface] | Get-Member -MemberType Method -Static
TypeName: System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface
Name                    MemberType Definition
----                    ---------- ----------
Equals                  Method     static bool Equals(System.Object objA, System.Object objB)
GetAllNetworkInterfaces Method     static System.Net.NetworkInformation.NetworkInterface[] GetAllNetworkInterfaces()
GetIsNetworkAvailable   Method     static bool GetIsNetworkAvailable()
ReferenceEquals         Method     static bool ReferenceEquals...