I am working with deeply nested JSON and, after convertfrom-json, need to be able to traverse through various parts of the object which the convertfrom-json cmdlet generates. I have no way of knowi...

Some hashtables in PowerShell, such as those imported with Import-PowerShellDataFile, would be much easier to navigate if being a PSCustomObject instead. @{ AllNodes = @( @{ NodeName = 'SRV1' R...

What is the easiest way to convert a PSCustomObject to a Hashtable? It displays just like one with the splat operator, curly braces and what appear to be key value pairs. When I try to cast it to [...

Is there a neat way to convert a PSCustomObject to a custom class as a function parameter in PowerShell 5.1? The custom object contains additional properties. I'd like to be able to do something l...

I've been using PowerShell for a number of years, and I thought I had a handle on some of its more 'eccentric' behaviour, but I've hit an issue I can't make head nor tail of... I've always used "r...

I feel silly that I cannot figure this out, but say I have an array containing pscustomobjects. At an incredibly high level take the following example: $arr = @() $obj1 = [pscustomobject]@{prop1=&q...

I'm trying to understand why PowerShell's memory balloons so much when I import a file that's ~16MB's as a variable. I can understand there's additional memory structure around that variable but I'...

First, as this leads to my question, I'll start by noting that I've worked with XML a fair bit in PowerShell, and like how I can read data from XML files, quickly, into arrays of custom objects. Fo...

Say I have a PowerShell array $Sessions = @() which I am going to fill with PSCustomObjects. How can I add a custom property to the array itself? E.g. so I can have $Sessions.Count which is built-i...

In PowerShell v3.0 PSCustomObject was introduced. It's like PSObject, but better. Among other improvements (e.g. property order being preserved), creating object from hashtable is simplified: [PSC...

Reading through an Article about custom Objects: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730946.aspx I wonder why i get a result for the individual entry: e.g $objAverage.Name while by $col...

The following code gives me an array of PSCustomObjects, how can I get it to return an array of Strings? $files = Get-ChildItem $directory -Recurse | Select-Object FullName | Where-Object {!($_.ps...