Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Third Edition

Types

A type is used to represent the generalized functionality of an object. To use this book as an example again, it could have a number of types, including the following:

• PowerShellBook
• TextBook
• Book

Each of these types describes the general functionality of the object. The type doesn't say how this book came to be, nor whether it will do anything (on its own) to help create one.

In PowerShell, types are written between square brackets. The [System.AppDomain] and [System.Management.Automation.PowerShell] statements, used when discussing previous assemblies, are types.

Type descriptions are objects in PowerShell [System.AppDomain] denotes a type, but the syntax used to denote the type is itself an object. It has properties and methods ...