Category: Powershell

Robert Cain mixes languages:

In the last two installment of this series, I covered the various ways to create objects using the PSCustomObject. We saw how to create it using the New-Object cmdlet, then how to add your custom properties to it using the Add-Member cmdlet. In the subsequent post we saw how to add new methods to it.

In this post, we’ll cover something new, creating an object based on C# code!

Click through to see how. And also to see the relic of pretended multi-language support, where you have a -Language parameter but it can only take one input and you aren’t going to see another.

Somebody in the community has created an alternative to support F#, though.

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Jeff Hicks has some new content:

There is an intangible side to PowerShell that can help you understand why you should use PowerShell, in addition to the how. What does it mean to “manage at scale?” Why should you document your code, and what are some best practices? How can you take PowerShell profiles to the next level? These are some of the questions I want to tackle in a new newsletter I’m calling “Behind the PowerShell Pipeline.”

I want to take my years of PowerShell education experience and create genuine premium content. And I want to be able to afford to take the time to develop deep content. This new venture is available now on Substack at jeffhicks.substack.com. Premium content will only be available through a paid subscription. You are welcome to sign up for a free subscription, but that will limit your content.

I’m interested in success here, especially given how there is such a norm for giving away technical content. I like that ethos but also want to see some additional capability for premium content to be available, as I think that is good for the long-term health of technical content development.

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Robert Cain builds on a prior post:

In the previous installment of this series, I covered the various ways to create objects using the PSCustomObject. We saw how to create it using the New-Object cmdlet, then how to add your custom properties to it using the Add-Member cmdlet.

In this post we’ll learn how to add our own methods to our objects using script blocks. Before we go on, just a quick reminder on vocabulary.

Click through for that reminder, as well as implementation details.

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Robert Cain shows us one method of working with classes in Powershell:

For this post I’ll begin a series on the use of PSCustomObject. Prior to the addition of classes in PowerShell 5.0, this was the technique needed to create your own customized objects. It still has a lot of validity today though, as you can use these techniques to extend the objects other people defined, including those already built into PowerShell.

In addition, understanding the use of PSCustomObject will give you a better understanding of the way classes work.

Click through to see how you can create an object and assign properties to it, though methods will come in the next post.

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Andrew Pruski learns how to run Powershell in Vim so that he doesn’t have to admit he can’t quit it:

I’ve been mucking about with Vim a bit recently and recently found myself (for reasons unknown tbh) writing powershell scripts in it.

Once I’d written a script, I would exit Vim to run it…however…that got me thinking, can I run powershell scripts directly in Vim?

Wait, vim on Windows? The madman!

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