Dynamic Properties in Objects…. and performance!
So last post I talked about dynamic properties in objects, and it was pretty cool. Then a crazy thing happened, that same colleague who was playing around with a faster Get-ChildItem project? He decided to get some real work done and began working on a Office365 script but the Get-MailboxStatistics cmdlet is a little bit different with O365 in the TotalItemSize property is deserialized and pretty much only has a lousy string output. So how to get the raw number without the ToMB() method? A little Googling and we found an Exchange blog post using RegEx to strip out all the extra crud, and a dynamic property! In the years I’ve been using PowerShell I’ve never once seen a dynamic property and the very day I decided to learn it we actually found a real life usage! What are the odds? Anyway, the twist was the Exchange team was applying the Add-Member to an array of objects. I didn’t realize you could do that. And it worked!
Dynamic Fields in Objects – what?
Short post today, but I wanted to talk about dynamic properties in objects. I haven’t had too much need for this kind of thing, but the fact that PowerShell can do it so easily is pretty cool. Imagine having an object where you plug a value into one field and dynamically another field in the object changes based on that first value. Kind of sounds like a function, but it’s all done right in the object itself.
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