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Shorthand syntax for initializing object properties in powershell

Docs: MSDN - PSCustomObject

Powershell v2.0

$object = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{  ​
    'Name' = 'Susan'
    'Age' = 32
}

Powershell v3.0

$object = [PSCustomObject]@{  ​
    'Name' = 'Susan'
    'Age' = 32
}

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PSCustomObject to Hashtable

What is the easiest way to convert a PSCustomObject to a Hashtable? It displays just like one with the splat operator, curly braces and what appear to be key value pairs. When I try to cast it to [Hashtable] it doesn't work. I also tried .toString()…
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How to initialize an array of custom objects

First, as this leads to my question, I'll start by noting that I've worked with XML a fair bit in PowerShell, and like how I can read data from XML files, quickly, into arrays of custom objects. For example, if I had the following XML file: …
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How to get Select-Object to return a raw type (e.g. String) rather than PSCustomObject?

The following code gives me an array of PSCustomObjects, how can I get it to return an array of Strings? $files = Get-ChildItem $directory -Recurse | Select-Object FullName | Where-Object {!($_.psiscontainer)} (As a secondary question, what's the…
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PowerShell - "Write-Output" vs "return" in functions

I've been using PowerShell for a number of years, and I thought I had a handle on some of its more 'eccentric' behaviour, but I've hit an issue I can't make head nor tail of... I've always used "return" to return values from functions, but recently…
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PowerShell type accelerators: PSObject vs PSCustomObject

In PowerShell v3.0 PSCustomObject was introduced. It's like PSObject, but better. Among other improvements (e.g. property order being preserved), creating object from hashtable is simplified: [PSCustomObject]@{one=1; two=2;} Now it seems obvious…
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How to add a custom property to a PowerShell array?

Say I have a PowerShell array $Sessions = @() which I am going to fill with PSCustomObjects. How can I add a custom property to the array itself? E.g. so I can have $Sessions.Count which is built-in and $Sessions.Active which I want to set to the…
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PowerShell: Importing 16MB CSV Into PowerShell Variable Creates >600MB's of PowerShell Memory Usage

I'm trying to understand why PowerShell's memory balloons so much when I import a file that's ~16MB's as a variable. I can understand there's additional memory structure around that variable but I'm just trying to understand why it's THAT high.…
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Powershell Custom Objects: How To Acess NoteProperty of collected result

Reading through an Article about custom Objects: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730946.aspx I wonder why i get a result for the individual entry: e.g $objAverage.Name while by $colAverages.Name nothing is returened. Although with…
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How to convert PSCustomObject with additional props to a custom class

Is there a neat way to convert a PSCustomObject to a custom class as a function parameter in PowerShell 5.1? The custom object contains additional properties. I'd like to be able to do something like this: class MyClass { …
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In an PSCustomObject, is it possible to refer an item belonging to it inside itself?

I need to keep inside a PSCustomObject, values at 2 or 3 places and these places are different depending of the object created. The object are hard coded in the script but sometime I need to change the values. But instead of change theses value at 2…
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Prevent adding pscustomobject to array if already exists

I feel silly that I cannot figure this out, but say I have an array containing pscustomobjects. At an incredibly high level take the following example: $arr = @() $obj1 = [pscustomobject]@{prop1="bob";prop2="dude";prop3="awesome"} $obj2 =…
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Powershell Selecting NoteProperty Type Objects From Object

I am working with deeply nested JSON and, after convertfrom-json, need to be able to traverse through various parts of the object which the convertfrom-json cmdlet generates. I have no way of knowing in advance what property names may or may not be…
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ExpandProperty - objects missing from pipeline

I have some objects in a pipeline, something like this: $arr1 = @( (New-Object -TypeName psobject -Property @{'objname'='obj1';props=@((new-object -typename psobject -Property @{'pname'='prop1';'val'=11;}),(new-object -typename psobject…
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How do I convert a powershell hashtable to an object?

Some hashtables in PowerShell, such as those imported with Import-PowerShellDataFile, would be much easier to navigate if being a PSCustomObject instead. @{ AllNodes = @( @{ NodeName = 'SRV1' Role = 'Application' …
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How to simplify multidimension array using Powershell?

I would like to create multidimension array in powershell, I tried this way and it works, but I want to simplified it to make it there is no repetition of name and pn. Anyone can give idea please, Thanks a lot $array = @( [PSCustomObject]@{name…
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