Earlier this Spring, I released a new function called Get-TypeMember. The function is in the PSScriptTools module. I wrote about that release here. This command is an alternative to Get-Member that includes more details. The other day I pushed a new version that makes it easier to identify properties that are enumerations. The function has…
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Convert PowerShell Object to Hashtable Revised
A while back I posted an advanced PowerShell function that would take an object and convert it to a hashtable. The premise was simple enough: look at the incoming object with Get-Member to discover the property names then create a hashtable with each property name as a hashtable key. I’ve a need to use this…
Friday Fun Convert Object to Hash Table
I’ve been working on a few PowerShell projects recently and one requirement I had was to turn an object into a hash table. I thought this was something that was already handled in PowerShell but I couldn’t find a cmdlet or an easy .NET technique. So I wrote my own function, ConvertTo-Hashtable. The function is…
Select Object Properties with Values
Here’s another concept I know I’ve written about in the past but that needed an update. A common technique I use when exploring and discovering objects is to pipe the object to Select-Object specifying all properties, get-service spooler | select *. There’s nothing wrong with this approach but depending on the object I might get…