Vista - Access a static member on a nested static class.

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

On Feb 28, 10:27 am, matthew.ash...@gmail.com wrote:
> 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

Oops, sorry for double post. Think I need to debounce my clicking
finger :-)

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
>

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