Chapter 11

Activity

Try running Remove-Module to get rid of the module we’ve just installed, and then running Get-Square. What happens? Why does this happen?

The Get-Square cmdlet is still available. This is because we saved the module in the module path correctly; this means that PowerShell will autoload the module when we call a function in the module. We can see it working in the following screenshot:

Figure A.13 – Autoloading with PowerShell

In the first line, I list the loaded modules. Then, I run Get-Square 7, which autoloads MyFirstModule. After that, I confirm that’s what happened by running Get-Module again. We can see that Remove-Module removes the Get-Square cmdlet by running it with the -Verbose switch in the last line.

Exercises

1. Get-Module
2. It imports a module into the global scope. Note that when we import a module from the command prompt, it is already imported into the global scope – we use...