Dmitry Kalashnikov

Powershell gives you full access to Microsoft .NET framework objects. There is a special syntax for accessing static methods and properties (it uses square brackets). For creating new objecects and instantiating .NET classes you use Net-Object commandlet.

Accessing static methods and properties:

[class]::method(arg1, arg2 …)
[class]::SomeProp

Instantiating objects and accessing their methods and properties:

$obj = New-Object Foo.Bar
$obj.method(arg1, arg2 …)
$obj.PropName

or shorter (anonymous var way):

(new-object Foo.Bar).method(arg1, arg2 …)

(new-object Foo.Bar).PropName

Some of the libraries are not accessible in powershell until you load them:

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName(”System.Windows.Forms”)

Getting More Help

To find out more about net-object, use the “man” page (manual):

Or you could have typed “get-help new-object” (man is just an alias to it)

Tags: .NET, c#, Microsoft, Powershell