Vista - Is easier WMI static class access in the works for 1.1+?

First of all, my compliments on the fact that Get-WmiObject -List _does_
return static class references. There are times when you absolutely need
them, and although we could take other avenues to getting to them, being
able to use the cmdlet makes life much better.

Unfortunately, it's a bit awkward trying to access a specific static class
or subset of the classes. You can do
Get-WmiObject -List
and get back every class on the system, but you cannot pre-filter; you get
every class in the namespace back, which on my system (AMD 1.67GHz, 768 MiB
RAM) takes about 10-12 times as long as directly get all instances of, say,
Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration.

This is livable in most cases, but if we don't have a WMI provider in the
works for v1.1, static class access is important in analyzing classes and is
a requirement for invoking static methods of the class. Are we planning on
doing anything to simplify static access?

The simplest way might be to add a WmiBase property to WMI objects, allowing
easy access to the underlying class. This is probably doable now (although I
haven't yet thought about it in detail). Another option would be to allow
the -List parameter to accept a wildcard-supporting <string[]>.