Creating Objects in PowerShell 3.0 (Fast and Easy)

In PowerShell 3.0, you can cast a hash table to a PSCustomObject type to easily generate your own objects:

$content = @{
    Name="Weltner"
    FirstName='Tobias'
    id=123
}

[PSCustomObject]$content
The result is an object:
Name                          FirstName                                                id
----                          ---------                                                --
Weltner                       Tobias                                                  123

The primary advantage of this approach is that you control the order of object properties. With the approach used in PowerShell 2.0, this was not guaranteed:

PS> New-Object PSObject -Property $content

                           id Name                          FirstName
                           -- ----                          ---------
                          123 Weltner                       Tobias

Note that in PowerShell 2.0, conversion to PSCustomObject fails, and you get back a hash table.

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