Run my third-party DLL file with PowerShell

Question

I am not sure if this is possible or not with PowerShell.

But basically I have a Windows Forms program that configures a program called EO Server. The EO Server has

Answer 1

Take a look at the blog post Load a Custom DLL from PowerShell. If you can interact with an object in .NET, you can probably do it in PowerShell too.

Answer 2

Yes, you can:

Add-Type -Path $customDll
$a = new-object custom.type

You call a static method like so:

[custom.type]::method()

Instead of Add-Type, you can also use reflection:

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile($customDll)

(Note that even the above is calling the Reflection library and the LoadFile static method.)

Answer 3

Actually the other offered solutions don't work for me, here it's an alternative that works perfectly for me:

$AssemblyPath = "C:\SomePath\SomeLIB.dll"
$bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($AssemblyPath)
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load($bytes)