A resource property with an empty array value does not land in the compiled MOF file

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Steps to reproduce

Running below configuration with PSDesiredStateConfiguration v2.0.7 in PowerShell produces a MOF file without the IPAddresses property. Using Windows PowerShell 5.1 instead a MOF file containing the IPAddresses property is created.

Configuration DnsServerForwarder_remove_config
{
    Import-DscResource -ModuleName 'DnsServerDsc'

    Node localhost
    {
        DnsServerForwarder 'SetForwarders'
        {
            IsSingleInstance = 'Yes'
            IPAddresses      = @()
            UseRootHint      = $false
        }
    }
}

Proposal

Lines 672-678 in PSDesiredStateConfiguration.psm1 should be changed from:

                    else
                    {
                        if ($targetTypeName -notmatch 'Array' -or $p.Value.Count)
                        {
                            $p.Name + ' = ' + (stringify -value $p.Value -asArray $asArray -targetType  $targetType ) + ";`n"
                        }
                    }

to

                    else
                    {
                        $p.Name + ' = ' + (stringify -value $p.Value -asArray $asArray -targetType  $targetType ) + ";`n"
                    }

Expected behavior

instance of DSC_DnsServerForwarder as $DSC_DnsServerForwarder1ref
{
ResourceID = "[DnsServerForwarder]SetForwarders";
 IPAddresses = {
};
 UseRootHint = False;
 SourceInfo = "::7::9::DnsServerForwarder";
 IsSingleInstance = "Yes";
 ModuleName = "DnsServerDsc";
 ModuleVersion = "3.0.0";

 ConfigurationName = "DnsServerForwarder_remove_config";

};

Actual behavior

instance of DSC_DnsServerForwarder as $DSC_DnsServerForwarder1ref
{
UseRootHint = False;
 SourceInfo = "::7::9::DnsServerForwarder";
 IsSingleInstance = "Yes";
 ResourceID = "[DnsServerForwarder]SetForwarders";
 ModuleVersion = "3.0.0";
 ModuleName = "DnsServerDsc";

 ConfigurationName = "DnsServerForwarder_remove_config";

};

Error details

Environment data

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.4.7
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.4.7
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.20348
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Version

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