Accessing .NET components from Powershell

Question

I want to use Powershell to write some utilities, leveraging our own .NET components to handle the actual work. This is in place of writing a small console app to tie the c

Answer 1

If you want to load an assembly into your PowerShell session, you can use reflection and load the assembly.

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom(PathToYourAssembly)

After you load your assembly, you can call static methods and create new instances of a class.

A good tutorial can be found here.

Both books mentioned by EBGreen are excellent. The PowerShell Cookbook is very task oriented and PowerShell in Action is a great description of the language, its focus and useability. PowerShell in Action is one of my favorite books. :)