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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Second Edition
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Mastering Windows PowerShell Scripting - Second Edition

by Chris Dent, Brenton J.W. Blawat
October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
11h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Assemblies

.NET objects are implemented within assemblies. An assembly may be static (based on a file) or dynamic (created in memory).

Many of the classes we might commonly use exist in DLL files stored in %SystemRoot%\Assembly. The list of currently loaded assemblies in a PowerShell session may be viewed using the following statement:

[System.AppDomain]::CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies() 

Once an assembly, and the types it contains, has been loaded into a session, it cannot be unloaded without completely restarting the session.

Much of PowerShell is implemented in the System.Management.Automation DLL; details of this can be shown using the following statement:

[System.Management.Automation.PowerShell].Assembly 

In this statement, the type PowerShell ...

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