New-Object creates new instances of objects, and you have seen one example in the past “Speech Week”: PowerShell was able to create a new speech synthesizer object, and convert text to speech:
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech $speak = New-Object -TypeName System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer $speak.Speak('Hello I am PowerShell!')
The approach is always the same, so when you use a different class like System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping, you can ping IP addresses or host names:
$ping = New-Object -TypeName System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping $timeout = 1000 $result = $ping.Send('powershellmagazine.com', $timeout) $result
In PowerShell 5 or better, there is an alternative to New-Object that works faster: the static method New() which is exposed by any type. You could rewrite the above examples like this:
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech $speak = [System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer]::New() $speak.Speak('Hello I am PowerShell!')
Likewise:
$ping = [System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping]::New() $timeout = 1000 $result = $ping.Send('powershellmagazine.com', $timeout) $result
Or, if you prefer, even shorter:
[System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping]::New().Send('powershellmagazine.com', 1000)
Note: once you use New() instead of New-Object, your code requires at least PowerShell 5.
