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Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition
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Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition

by Bruce Payette, Richard Siddaway
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
904 pages
30h 53m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 19. Classes in PowerShell

This chapter covers

  • The basic ideas underlying classes in PowerShell
  • PowerShell class and enumeration creation
  • Detailed discussion of properties and methods in PowerShell classes
  • Method overloading and inheritance
  • Class initialization and construction
  • DSC resources based on PowerShell classes

Oh brave new world that has such people in it!

Miranda in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest

PowerShell has always been a .NET language in that it worked with and consumed the types in the .NET framework, but it was always a kind of second-class citizen compared to other .NET languages because you couldn’t create new types directly in PowerShell. This has been fixed in PowerShell v5, which now supports the ability ...

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