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Hate Add-Member? (PowerShell's Adaptive Type System to the Rescue)

September 6, 2008 Sep 6, 2008 09/6/08
PowerShell Team
Do you hate Add-Member as much as I do? Wait - maybe you aren't familiar with Add-Member or the glory of PowerShell's Adaptive Type System.  (ATS).  When I looked at the .NET type system, my reaction was "....almost".  I'm not trying to throw a rock at .NET - anyone that knows me knows how much I love .NET but the reality is ...

Encoding Operations Knowledge

August 1, 2006 Aug 1, 2006 08/1/06
PowerShell Team
One of the primary goals of Windows PowerShell is to encode operations knowledge.   Consider the example of finding out what domain role a computer plays.  If you look at the WMI class WIN32_COMPUTERSYSTEM, you'll see that it tells you this information:   PS> Get-WMiObject Win32_computerSystem |fl dom*Domain &...