You're reading from Mastering PowerShell Scripting Automate and manage your environment using PowerShell 7.1

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800206540

Length 788 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

PowerShell

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Chris Dent

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to PowerShell

2. Modules and Snap-Ins FREE CHAPTER

3. Working with Objects in PowerShell

4. Operators

5. Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables

6. Conditional Statements and Loops

7. Working with .NET

8. Strings, Numbers, and Dates

9. Regular Expressions

10. Files, Folders, and the Registry

11. Windows Management Instrumentation

12. Working with HTML, XML, and JSON

13. Web Requests and Web Services

14. Remoting and Remote Management

15. Asynchronous Processing

16. Graphical User Interfaces

17. Scripts, Functions, and Script Blocks

18. Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters

19. Classes and Enumerations

20. Building Modules

21. Testing

22. Error Handling

23. Debugging and Troubleshooting

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

25. Index

Members

At the beginning of this chapter, the idea of properties and methods was introduced. These are part of a set of items collectively known as members. These members are used to interact with an object. A few of the more frequently used members are NoteProperty, ScriptProperty, ScriptMethod, and Event.

What are the member types?

The list of possible member types can be viewed on MSDN, which includes a short description of each member type:

https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/system.management.automation.psmembertypes?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=pscore-6.2.0

This chapter focuses on the property members Property, NoteProperty, and ScriptProperty.

The Get-Member command

The Get-Member command can be used to view the different members of an object. For example, it can be used to list the members of a process object returned by Get-Process. The automatic variable $PID holds the process ID of the current PowerShell process: