Muxing AccessControl and FileInfo objects

Most of us know the members (partially printed at bottom) of System.Security.AccessControl and System.IO.FileInfo. And most of us know they both share the PS* NoteProperty items:

• PSChildName                     NoteProperty   System.String PSChildName=test.txt
• PSDrive                         NoteProperty   System.Management.Automation.PSDriveInfo PSDrive=C
• PSParentPath                    NoteProperty   System.String PSParentPath=Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\
• PSPath                          NoteProperty   System.String PSPath=Microsoft.PowerShell.Core\FileSystem::C:\test.txt
• PSProvider                      NoteProperty  

New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application

Here are some notes on exposing  the Shell as a ComObject with Powershell. Here, I trace down the cookies folder:


$a = New-Object -ComObject Shell.Application
$b=1..100
 foreach ($i in $b) {write "$i $($a | % {$_.Namespace($i).Self.Path})"}
....
32 C:\Users\rferrisx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
33 C:\Users\rferrisx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Cookies
34 C:\Users\rferrisx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History
...

Sorting Windows events by UserID: Part II (Building a Module)

I am a bit late to some v2.0 functionality.  I made my first attempt at creating a module, in this case a six function script that queries general information from an event log. I ran into at least two problems:

• (a) get-winevent is slow for high volume queries
• (b) modules so encapsulate their variables in functions that I could not find how to call all functions globally from an internal or external script.