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Old 02-28-2007   #4 (permalink)
matthew.ashton@gmail.com


 
 

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

On Feb 28, 1:55 pm, "Brandon Shell" <tshell.m...@mk.gmail.com> wrote:
> 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....powershell/br...
>
> <matthew.ash...@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


Great, thanks Brandon - works a treat.

matt

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