{"id":4441,"date":"2012-12-21T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2012\/12\/21\/powertip-the-easy-way-to-create-a-custom-powershell-object\/"},"modified":"2012-12-21T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T11:59:00","slug":"powertip-the-easy-way-to-create-a-custom-powershell-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-the-easy-way-to-create-a-custom-powershell-object\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: The Easy Way to Create a Custom PowerShell Object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong>&nbsp;Create a custom Windows PowerShell object with the&nbsp;<strong>PSCustomObject<\/strong>&nbsp;type accelerator.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;What&rsquo;s the easiest way to create a custom object?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Charlotte Windows PowerShell User group member Brian Wilhite says: One of the easiest ways to create a custom object is to use the&nbsp;<strong>PSCustomObject<\/strong>&nbsp;type accelerator.&nbsp; This &ldquo;shortcut&rdquo; will not only create the custom object, but it will arrange the key\/value pairs in the order in which they were entered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">$CustomObject = [PSCustomObject]@{a=1;c=3;b=2;d=4}<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px\">$CustomObject | Get-Member<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Create a custom Windows PowerShell object with the&nbsp;PSCustomObject&nbsp;type accelerator. &nbsp;What&rsquo;s the easiest way to create a custom object? &nbsp;Charlotte Windows PowerShell User group member Brian Wilhite says: One of the easiest ways to create a custom object is to use the&nbsp;PSCustomObject&nbsp;type accelerator.&nbsp; This &ldquo;shortcut&rdquo; will not only create the custom object, but it will arrange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[327,56,356,3,45],"class_list":["post-4441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-brian-wilhite","tag-guest-blogger","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Create a custom Windows PowerShell object with the&nbsp;PSCustomObject&nbsp;type accelerator. &nbsp;What&rsquo;s the easiest way to create a custom object? &nbsp;Charlotte Windows PowerShell User group member Brian Wilhite says: One of the easiest ways to create a custom object is to use the&nbsp;PSCustomObject&nbsp;type accelerator.&nbsp; This &ldquo;shortcut&rdquo; will not only create the custom object, but it will arrange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}