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Is there a convenient method to access .NET class documentation (i.e. the MSDN documentation) from within PowerShel similar to "man 3" in UNIX shells?
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The addition of classes enables developers and IT professionals to embrace PowerShell for a wider range of use cases. It simplifies development of PowerShell artifacts and accelerates coverage of management surfaces. A class declaration is a blueprint used to create instances of objects at run time.
PowerShell has the capability to create .Net Framework classes using the Add-Type cmdlet. To create classes, the C# language can be used to define the classes. C# is part of Visual Studio, but having Visual Studio is not necessary to create classes for use in PowerShell.
It is always a best practice, to use a native Windows PowerShell cmdlet when it exists unless there is a good reason for not doing so. One such example is using a static method within a .NET class. To determine the power of a number we make use of System.Math class and use the method Pow
Firstly you need to download .dll into powershell session: [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("c:\script ame.dll") Share Improve this answer Follow answered May 29 '17 at 12:37 Mihail KuznesovMihail Kuznesov 51622 silver badges1212 bronze badges 2 Add-Type -AssemblyNameis the preferred way to load .Net assemblies. – vonPryz
In the Powershell Community Extensions 2.0 (still only available via daily builds), we extend Get-Help to add a -object parameter that, in conjunction with -online, will bring up MSDN documentation e.g.:
Get-Help -object (get-date) -online
Until we release a 2.0 beta (in a few weeks), grab the module file from here. Note that it requires features in PowerShell 2.0. Import this module like so:
Import-Module .\Pscx.GetHelp.psm1
Note that you can't use this on a namespace like System.Net but pick a type like System.Net.WebClient e.g.:
Get-Help -obj [System.Net.WebClient] -online
BTW, gives props to x0n (Oisin) for implementing this for PSCX.
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