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Getting Started with Powershell

You're reading from   Getting Started with Powershell Learn the fundamentals of PowerShell to build reusable scripts and functions to automate administrative tasks with Windows

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783558506
Length 180 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps 2. Building Blocks FREE CHAPTER 3. Objects and PowerShell 4. Life on the Assembly Line 5. Formatting Output 6. Scripts 7. Functions 8. Modules 9. File I/O 10. WMI and CIM 11. Web Server Administration A. Next Steps
Index

What are members?


Members are the attributes of types that are implemented in classes and instantiated in objects. Members come in many forms in the .NET framework, including properties, methods, and events.

Properties represent the data contained in an object. For instance, in a FileInfo object (System.IO.FileInfo), there would be properties referring to the filename, file extension, length, and various DateTime values associated with the file. An object referring to a service (of the System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController type) would have properties for the display name of the service and the state (running or not).

Methods refer to the operations that the objects (or sometimes classes) can perform. A service object, for instance, can Start and Stop. A database command object can Execute. A file object can Delete or Encrypt itself. Most objects have some methods (for example, ToString and Equals) because they are of the System.Object type.

Events are a way for an object to notify that...

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