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Mastering PowerShell Scripting

You're reading from   Mastering PowerShell Scripting Automate repetitive tasks and simplify complex administrative tasks using PowerShell

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805120278
Length 826 pages
Edition 5th Edition
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Chris Dent Chris Dent
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Preface 1. Introduction to PowerShell FREE CHAPTER 2. Modules 3. Variables, Arrays, and Hashtables 4. Working with Objects in PowerShell 5. Operators 6. Conditional Statements and Loops 7. Working with .NET 8. Files, Folders, and the Registry 9. Windows Management Instrumentation 10. Working with HTML, XML, and JSON 11. Web Requests and Web Services 12. Remoting and Remote Management 13. Asynchronous Processing 14. Graphical User Interfaces 15. Scripts, Functions, and Script Blocks 16. Parameters, Validation, and Dynamic Parameters 17. Classes and Enumerations 18. Testing 19. Error Handling 20. Debugging 21. Other Books You May Enjoy
22. Index

Reflection in PowerShell

Types, properties, and methods can be marked as internal or private. Internal types and members are only accessible by other types and members within the same assembly. Private members are only accessible within the same class or type. Collectively these can be described as non-public types and members.Non-public types and members are accessible using what is known as Reflection. The .NET reference describes Reflection in the dynamic programming guide: https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/reflection-and-codedom/reflection.PowerShell can make use of Reflection to explore and use non-public types and members. Doing so introduces a risk; such types and members are not part of a public-supported API. As code is updated, these non-public types and members may disappear or change behavior. It is therefore not recommended to make code that is to be used in production dependent on a non-public implementation.Even if it might not be supported, exploring is interesting...

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