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If you've been following along on the blog recently you've read about my use of PowerShell type extensions. This is a way of adding new properties to things I use all the time. The goal is to save typing and get what I need with minimal effort. You can also take this a step further by creating your own property sets.<\/p>\n

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You probably didn't know it but PowerShell already uses property sets. Here's an example you can try yourself.<\/p>\n

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Where did that come from? Pipe Get-Process<\/a> to Get-Member<\/a> and see for yourself.<\/p>\n

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A property set is a shortcut way of selecting a subset of properties. You can also define property sets. Let's take my Hyper-V extensions that allow me to run a command like this:<\/p>\n

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I may want to see this group of properties often. But I clearly don't want to type this all the time. You can define a new property set with the Update-TypeData<\/a> cmdlet, but it will require a little more effort. Unfortunately, there are no easy parameters to use. Instead you need to create a ps1xml file like this:<\/p>\n

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" ?>\r\n<Types>\r\n   <Type>\r\n        <Name>Microsoft.HyperV.PowerShell.VirtualMachine<\/Name>\r\n         <Members>\r\n            <PropertySet>\r\n                <Name>PSConfig<\/Name>\r\n                <ReferencedProperties>\r\n                    <Name>VMName<\/Name>\r\n                    <Name>State<\/Name>\r\n                    <Name>DynamicMemoryEnabled<\/Name>\r\n                    <Name>DiskPath<\/Name>\r\n                    <Name>TestVHD<\/Name>\r\n                    <Name>ConfigurationFile<\/Name>\r\n                <\/ReferencedProperties>\r\n            <\/PropertySet>\r\n        <\/Members>\r\n    <\/Type>\r\n<\/Types>\r\n<\/pre>\n
Hopefully this shouldn't be too difficult to read. I'm defining a property set member for the VirtualMachine type with a name of PSConfig.\u00a0 This property set will use the referenced property names. You can add definitions for other types in the same XML file but I'm not so I named this file MyHyperV.types.ps1xml. The name doesn't really matter but the pattern is to use types.ps1xml as part of the file name.<\/p>\n
To load this file I add this line to my PowerShell profile script.<\/p>\n
Update-TypeData -AppendPath c:\\scripts\\MyHyperV.types.ps1xml\r\n<\/pre>\n
I'm not defining anything that conflicts with the out-of-the-box definitions so it doesn't matter if I prepend or append. Now my life is much easier.<\/p>\n
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I can see the new definition with Get-Member.<\/p>\n
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The XML can be a little daunting at first but once you have the outline it should be a simple matter of cutting and pasting. Just remember to watch your tags and case.<\/p>\n
Does this look like something you'd use?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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