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| <# | |
| When you are roughing out a C# type in powershell, and you don't want to fire up | |
| Visual Studio, it can get tiresome having to constantly reload your script editor. | |
| This increments the class name each time you compile it. | |
| Blogged in https://fsackur.github.io/2018/03/30/Reflecting-on-types/ | |
| #> | |
| $TypeDef = @' | |
| using System; | |
| using System.Management.Automation; | |
| using System.Collections; | |
| using System.Collections.Generic; | |
| public class TestClass | |
| { | |
| private string Thing; | |
| public string GetThing() | |
| { | |
| return Thing; | |
| } | |
| } | |
| '@ | |
| if (-not $i) {$Global:i = 1} else {$i++} | |
| if ($TypeDef -match 'class\s+(\w+)\b') | |
| { | |
| $ClassName = $Matches.1 | |
| } | |
| else | |
| { | |
| throw "Couldn't parse class name from source code" | |
| } | |
| $TypeDef = $TypeDef -replace ([Regex]::Escape($ClassName) + '\b'), "$ClassName$i" | |
| $ClassName += $i | |
| $TypesToReference = @( | |
| #Add any types here from non-default assemblies | |
| #[System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer] | |
| ) | |
| $AssembliesToReference = $TypesToReference.Assembly | |
| $Types = Add-Type -TypeDefinition $TypeDef -PassThru -ErrorAction Continue -ReferencedAssemblies $AssembliesToReference | |
| $Type = $Types | ? Name -eq $ClassName |
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