how to export a class in powershell v5 module

Question

I\'ve got a module setup to be like a library for a few other scripts. I can\'t figure out how to get a class declaration into the script scope calling Import-Module

Answer 1

You pretty much cannot. According to about_Classes help:

Class keyword

Defines a new class. This is a true .NET Framework type. Class members are public, but only public within the module scope. You can't refer to the type name as a string (for example, New-Object doesn't work), and in this release, you can't use a type literal (for example, [MyClass]) outside the script/module file in which the class is defined.

This means, if you want to get yourself a data_block instance or use functions that operate those classes, make a function, say, New-DataBlock and make it return a new data_block instance, which you can then use to get class methods and properties (likely including static ones).