Vista - Intellisense / get-member

I miss Visual Studio and intellisense at times. I don't miss the overhead
though. Is there a way to list a namespace methods, properties without
declaring the variable first?

I know the .NET framework pretty well but not memorized everything. Is
there a built-in cmdlet to display properties, methods of a particular
namespace by typing just a command.. Kind of like Object Browser in Visual
Studio.

'These two statements print out the methods and works fine.
$sw = new-object system.io.streamwriter("c:\temp\ss.txt")
$sw | get-member -membertype methods

Is there a way to do and print out methods?
get-member System.IO.Streamwriter -memberType methods

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"Steve Schofield" <steve@deviq.com> wrote in message
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> I know the .NET framework pretty well but not memorized everything. Is
> there a built-in cmdlet to display properties, methods of a particular
> namespace by typing just a command.. Kind of like Object Browser in
> Visual Studio.
>
> 'These two statements print out the methods and works fine.
> $sw = new-object system.io.streamwriter("c:\temp\ss.txt")
> $sw | get-member -membertype methods
>
> Is there a way to do and print out methods?
> get-member System.IO.Streamwriter -memberType methods

It works well for static methods (note the parenthesis and square brackets
around the class name):

PS> get-member -in ([system.math]) -static

TypeName: System.Math

Name MemberType Definition
---- ---------- ----------
Abs Method static System.Single Abs(Single value), static
Syst...
Acos Method static System.Double Acos(Double d)
Asin Method static System.Double Asin(Double d)
Atan Method static System.Double Atan(Double d)
....

If you want to explore properties and methods available to class instances,
I think you have to create an instance first.

Jacques

Steve Schofield wrote:
> I miss Visual Studio and intellisense at times. I don't miss the overhead
> though. Is there a way to list a namespace methods, properties without
> declaring the variable first?
>
> I know the .NET framework pretty well but not memorized everything. Is
> there a built-in cmdlet to display properties, methods of a particular
> namespace by typing just a command.. Kind of like Object Browser in Visual
> Studio.
>
> 'These two statements print out the methods and works fine.
> $sw = new-object system.io.streamwriter("c:\temp\ss.txt")
> $sw | get-member -membertype methods
>
> Is there a way to do and print out methods?
> get-member System.IO.Streamwriter -memberType methods

You don't need to assign to a variable. You can pipe the new object into
the get-member call:

new-object text.stringBuilder | get-member -memberType methods

If you don't want to create an instance at all, you can use reflection:

[text.stringBuilder].getMethods() | % { $_.name } | sort -unique