Working with PowerShell and .NET

Here we are then, the last chapter. We’re going to look at the product that PowerShell 7 is built on, .NET, and how we can use it to expand the range of things we can do in PowerShell. Note that this chapter can’t be anything more than a whistlestop tour; .NET is a huge subject, and there are many, many more books written for it than there are for PowerShell. PowerShell is just one application written on .NET, and it only touches a subset of the things that we can do with .NET. That being said, let’s have a look at how it works and some of the exciting things we can use it for.

The main topics we will cover in this chapter are as follows:

• Exploring .NET
• The components of .NET
• Working with .NET in PowerShell
• Using .NET