{"id":73561,"date":"2015-09-04T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/09\/04\/adding-methods-to-a-powershell-5-class\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:35:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:35:22","slug":"adding-methods-to-a-powershell-5-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/adding-methods-to-a-powershell-5-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Methods to a PowerShell 5 Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy, talks about adding methods to a Windows PowerShell 5.0 class in Windows 10.<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft Scripting Guy, Ed Wilson, is here. Having a bunch of properties, although cool, is in the end, rather unsatisfying. I remember trying to teach VBScript and WMI in the old days. Although it was possible to glean lots of information, there were few things that actually did anything.<\/p>\n

I could easily find the name and the driver of the sound card, but I could not disable the sound card. I could find the screen resolution, but I could not change the screen resolution. I could find the currently logged on user, but I could not log the user out…and so on.<\/p>\n

It became very frustrating because in the end, it comes down to needing to actually do something. I mean I can describe all I want, but what can I really do? It is sort of the difference between reading a literary novel where nothing happens and reading a thriller where every page contains action. I prefer action—most of the time.<\/p>\n

In Windows PowerShell classes, it is the methods that actually do something. Properties describe things. So, how do I add a method?<\/p>\n

There are two types of methods I am going to add. For the first method, I simply call it, and it works. For the second method, I need to supply some information for the method to work. I am not adding any constraints or anything else. The point is to show you how to implement the methods. I will conclude the post by showing three ways of calling the methods after they are implemented.<\/p>\n

   Note <\/b> This is the fifth post in a series about creating classes in Windows PowerShell 5.0. You should read the earlier
   posts prior to reading today's post:<\/p>\n