Recipe 15.12. Create Your Own PowerShell Cmdlet

15.13.1. Problem

You want to write your own PowerShell cmdlet.

15.13.2. Discussion

As mentioned previously in "Structured Commands (Cmdlets)" in A Guided Tour of Windows PowerShell, PowerShell cmdlets offer several significant advantages over traditional executable programs. From the user's perspective, cmdlets are incredibly consistent—and their support for strongly typed objects as input makes them powerful. From the cmdlet author's perspective, cmdlets are incredibly easy to write when compared to the amount of power they provide. Creating and exposing a new command-line parameter is as easy as creating a new public property on a class. Supporting a rich pipeline model is as easy as placing your implementation logic into one of three standard method overrides.