Question

Most of out of the box PowerShell commands are returning “complex” objects.

for example, Get-Process returns an array of System.Diagnostics.Process.

All of the function I’ve ever wrote was returning either a simple type, or an existing kind of object.

If I want to return a home made objects, what are guidelines ?

For example, imagine I have an object with these attributes: Name, Age. In C# I would have wrote

public class Person {
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public uint Age { get; set; }
}

What are my options for returning such object from a PowerShell function ?

1. As my goal is to create PowerShell module, should I move to a c# module instead of a ps1 file ?
2. should I compile such objects in a custom DLL and reference it in my module using LoadWithPartialName ?
3. Should I put my class in a powershell string, then dynamically compile it ?

Answer 1

you can use this syntax:

New-Object PSObject -Property @{
   Name = 'Bob'
   Age = 32
}