PSStandardMembers – The Stealth Property

re: PSStandardMembers – The Stealth Property

Poshoholic — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:11:28 GMT

I still really want this sort of configuration information to be settable for both objects returned by cmdlets and custom objects created using New-Object from PowerShell itself without the need for a ps1xml file. It makes much more sense to me to have this information defined in a module or function in PowerShell script right next to the definition of the object, not in an external ps1xml file. Part of this used to work in PowerShell 1.0 (http://poshoholic.com/2008/07/05/essential-powershell-define-default-properties-for-custom-objects/) but now that's broken. Please consider fixing the broken issue and supporting defining the rest of this for a future release of PowerShell. I'd love to see cmdlets or a DSL allow you to define this inline in PowerShell script files.

Also something that is still unclear in this area is how do you define an object that rehydrates with all properties intact, not as a deserialized object? I can create simple custom objects with properties containing strings and integers and when I Export-Clixml and then Import-Clixml, the object comes back with the type names prefixed with "Deserialized.". I want a method to do this same task without the "Deserialized." prefix.

re: PSStandardMembers – The Stealth Property

Martin Zugec — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:02:18 GMT

Hi Jeffrey,

info about PSStandardMembers is quite interesting, however Get-Member -FORCE is even more interesting :)

Martin

re: PSStandardMembers – The Stealth Property

Jim V — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:24:30 GMT

$ts=[timespan]0

# empty timespan object

$ts=[timespan]1

# timespan object set to one tick.

$ts=[timespan]1d

# timespan object set to 1 day.

What are the other time operators? We have gb,kb, tb, etc. What about teh rest of the time operators? Where is this documented.

Good for a blog maybe.

re: PSStandardMembers – The Stealth Property

Richard Holliday — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:33:02 GMT

Great post. Thanks for the background.

I wonder if this will make it into Bruce's second edition...