I needed to create a diagram for further work so I wanted to use PowerShell output for that. But how to create self-object as PSObject?
PSObject can be created by:
$Object1 = New-Object PSObject $Object1 | add-member -Type NoteProperty -name "Name" -value "Phill" $Object1 | add-member -Type NoteProperty -name "Alias" -value "Phoo"
Another object:
$Object2 = New-Object PSObject $Object2 | add-member -Type NoteProperty -name "Name" -value "John" $Object2 | add-member -Type NoteProperty -name "Alias" -value "Jahoo"
How to marge two or more objects? We need to create collection and load required objects:
[PSObject[]] $Collection1 = @() $Collection=$Object1,$Object2
What is output for case above?
$Collection | fl
Name : Phill
Alias : Phoo
Name : John
Alias : Jahoo
Collection can be created dynamically for example like this:
[PSObject[]] $Collection = @()
for($i=1;$i -le 3;$i++){
$Object = @()
$Object = New-Object PSObject
$Object | add-member -Type NoteProperty -name "Number" -value "$i"
$Object | add-member -Type NoteProperty -name "MyNumber" -value "My$i"
$Collection+=$Object
}
$Collection|fl
The output is following:
Number : 1 MyNumber : My1 Number : 2 MyNumber : My2 Number : 3 MyNumber : My3
FICILITY.NET 
Hi,
may I ask some question?
Why do you think a PSObject is better than an simple hastable?
Would it be possible to add to a hashtable and/or a PSObject complex objects like:
$hash = { “Socket = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient $IP, $PORT; … }
Would it be better to store this in a PSObject like (using your example from above):
$Object | add-member -Type NoteProperty -name “Socket” -value $(New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient $IP, $PORT)
(would that be correct?)
Thanks a lot in advance!
Carl