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Create PowerShell Objects

PowerShell is object based scripting language and it is good practice to create objects to return, store and manipulate information instead of text. But are you aware that there are 4 ways to create objects in PowerShell:

  1. Convert Hashtables to [PSCustomObject]

    You can create hashtables and type cast them to PowerShell Custom Objects [PSCustomObject] type accelerator, this the fastest way to create an object in PowerShell


  2. Using Select-Object cmdlets

    You can also use the Select-object cmdlet to create objects with custom properties

  3. Using New-Object and Add-Member

    This is longer way to create PowerShell objects, first you instantiate class:PSObjectthen you use Add-Member cmdlet to add member properties to the object. You can also add methods using this method.

  4. Using New-Object and hashtables

    PowerShell also allows you to create hashtables and assign it as property to New-Object PSObject cmdlet.

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