Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Calling constructors with lists of arguments

Arguments may be passed to the class constructor using a number of different approaches.

Using New-Object and the ArgumentList parameter, passing a single argument will use the second constructor in the list on MSDN (and in PowerShell):

PS> New-Object -TypeName System.Text.StringBuilder -ArgumentList 10Capacity MaxCapacity Length-------- ----------- ------      10  2147483647      0

Alternatively, the following two approaches may be used:

New-Object System.Text.StringBuilder(10) 
[System.Text.StringBuilder]::new(10) 

PowerShell decides which constructor to use based on the numbers and types of the arguments.

In the previous examples, one argument is passed; there are two possible constructors that accept a ...