Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

The Static modifier

All of the members demonstrated so far have required creation of an instance of a type using either New-Object or ::new().

Static members may be executed without creating an instance of a type (based on a class).

Classes may implement static properties and static methods using the Static modifier keyword:

class MyClass {    static [String] $Property = 'Property value'    static [String] Method() {        return 'Method return'    }}

The static members are invoked as follows:

[MyClass]::Property[MyClass]::Method()

The Hidden modifier may be used in conjunction with the Static modifier. The modifiers may be used in either order.