Creating custom types in PowerShell, revisited for v2
In June, I blogged on creating custom types within PowerShell. In PowerShell v2, released with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, things are a bit easier.
Now, the syntax for adding properties is far nicer, as you can pass a hashtable of values to add-member. Namely, the previous example of enumerating the applications run at startup could be more cleanly written as:
$runkey = Get-Item 'HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
$values = Get-ItemProperty $runkey.PSPath
foreach ($app in $runkey.Property) {
$result = New-Object PSObject –prop @{
Application = $app;
Path = $values.$app
}
Write-Output $result
}
Compared to the syntax of using separate add-member calls or even using the select-object shortcut as described earlier, this is much cleaner. Of course, it can also be compressed on a single line if so desired.
January 20, 2010
· 
Jouni Heikniemi · 
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Tags: PowerShell · Posted in: .NET
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Aleksandar - February 5, 2010
# here is a slightly different way to create a hashtable with name/value pairs
$ht = @{}
$runkey = Get-Item 'HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
$runkey.getvaluenames() | % {if ($_) {$ht.$_ = $runkey.getvalue($_)}}
new-object psobject -property $ht
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