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Old 02-28-2007   #3 (permalink)
Brandon Shell


 
 

Re: Access a static member on a nested static class.

I think this was covered a while back in the news group. I couldnt find it
in my reader, but google had a reference. I believe what your looking for is
this [System.Net.WebRequestMethods+Ftp]::<method here>

Here is the google link:
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...864d6aa7b682e9

<matthew.ashton@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1172658444.733595.55730@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com...
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I was playing around with Powershell yesterday, trying to write
> functions to act as a simple FTP client. I based my code around the
> System.Net.FtpWebRequest object. There is a property ont hsi object
> called method which takes a string describing which FTP operation you
> wish to perform with the object. The value of 'Method' can only be one
> of a limited set of strings.
>
> In the .net framework there is a static class,
> System.Net.WebRequestMethods which contains another static class, FTP,
> which has a set of const string members which define the strings that
> should be assigned to the 'Method' property above. For example, FTP
> has a member 'ListDirectory' that returns the string "NLST".
>
> Unfortunately, try as I might, I cannnot figure out how to access
> these members of FTP in Powershell. No combination of syntax that I
> have tried allows me to return the values of the const's. In the end I
> had to iterate over them in a c# app to get the vlaues :-(
>
> Can someone point me in the direction of the right syntax?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>


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