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PowerShell: Can you write a class like the system ones?

Hopefully a very simple question. I'm diving into classes within PowerShell; What I'm wondering is normally you estantiate a class as Class <myClass> {} is there a way to write it like the system ones System.Collections.Generic..... So it would be something akin to: class <myCompany>.<myClass> {}?

Solution

  • NO

    PowerShell classes cannot be namespaced with native syntax, you'll need to compile your types from C# using Add-Type:

    Add-Type -TypeDefinition @'
namespace MyCompany {
  public class MyClass { }
}
'@