Select-Object works correctly only when a cmdlet is wrapped in parentheses

[avirupch]

Context:

StorSimple service contains 4 StorageAccountCredential objects, we are trying to select the first one, and use that to create a new VolumeContainer object.

Failure scenario:

$sacToUse = Get-AzureStorSimpleStorageAccountCredential | Select-Object -First 1 -Wait
$sacToUse | New-AzureStorSimpleDeviceVolumeContainer -DeviceName avirupch_app3 -Name vc_11 -BandWidthRate 256 –WaitForComplete

$sacToUse is a list of all 4 StorageAccountCredential objects instead of only the first one, and when piped to the second cmdlet it results in the latter being called once for each object, that is total 4 times.

Succeess scenario:

$sacToUse2 = (Get-AzureStorSimpleStorageAccountCredential) | Select-Object -First 1 -Wait
$sactoUse2 | New-AzureStorSimpleDeviceVolumeContainer -DeviceName avirupch_app3 -Name vc_12 -BandWidthRate 256 –WaitForComplete

After wrapping the first cmdlet in parentheses, $sacToUse2 now returns only the first object, and thus the second cmdlet is also called once.

[markcowl]

@avirupch fix is here: #1813