One of the things I love about PowerShell is that almost everyday I learn something new that makes me better at what I do. Not just better at PowerShell, but better at getting my stuff done (testing, deploying, automating, integrating, etc). It’s like that excitement of finding $5 on the sidewalk. You’re both happy to be a little richer but also harbour that sneaky feeling that you’ve stolen something, in this case you’ve stolen time, and maybe money too.
Anyhow, my $5 bill today is the discovery of Add-Type.
For too long I’ve been using [reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom to load assemblies, which is analogous to adding references to a C# project. It is a bit tedious and I don’t feel like I’ve ever mastered it, but now have found Get-Type to be way more user friendly and dependable.
| 001 002 003 004 005 | ### Before [reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom('C:\Windows\….<path shortened>\System.Security.dll' ### After Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Security |
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