Vista - referencing system.management.automation DLL (or other Gac'd ones)

How do you reference DLLs in the gac dynamically? Is there a method to
find a link to the gac'd items? Currently the only way I can seem to
reference this one dynamically to pass to CSharpCodeProvider is by
looking at the location of the currently loaded one with

$(([appdomain]::currentdomain.getassemblies() |where {($_.fullname
-match "system.management.automation")}).location)


$ClassSystem.CSharpCodeProvider = new-object
Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider
$ClassSystem.StandardParams = new-object
System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters
$ClassSystem.StandardParams.GenerateInMemory = $True

$private:refs = "System.DLL","System.management.dll",
$(([appdomain]::currentdomain.getassemblies() |where {($_.fullname
-match "system.management.automation")}).location)

$ClassSystem.StandardParams.ReferencedAssemblies.AddRange($refs)

-Karl

The following command will load assemblies from the GAC, you can
experiment with the various static "Load*" methods on the Assembly
class to get the exact file/version that you need (i.e. if you're ever
looking for a particular revision of System.Management.Automation.dll
instead of just the most recent one).

PS>
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Management.Automation")

GAC Version Location
--- ------- --------
True v2.0.50727 C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL
\System.Management.Automation\1.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.Man...


On Mar 13, 2:27 pm, klu...@xtra.co.nz wrote:
> How do you reference DLLs in the gac dynamically? Is there a method to
> find a link to the gac'd items? Currently the only way I can seem to
> reference this one dynamically to pass to CSharpCodeProvider is by
> looking at the location of the currently loaded one with
>
> $(([appdomain]::currentdomain.getassemblies() |where {($_.fullname
> -match "system.management.automation")}).location)
>
> $ClassSystem.CSharpCodeProvider = new-object
> Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider
> $ClassSystem.StandardParams = new-object
> System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters
> $ClassSystem.StandardParams.GenerateInMemory = $True
>
> $private:refs = "System.DLL","System.management.dll",
> $(([appdomain]::currentdomain.getassemblies() |where {($_.fullname
> -match "system.management.automation")}).location)
>
> $ClassSystem.StandardParams.ReferencedAssemblies.AddRange($refs)
>
> -Karl

For System.Management.Automation explicitly, this is what I do:

[PsObject].Assembly.Location

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Windows PowerShell Development
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<aaronlerch@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> The following command will load assemblies from the GAC, you can
> experiment with the various static "Load*" methods on the Assembly
> class to get the exact file/version that you need (i.e. if you're ever
> looking for a particular revision of System.Management.Automation.dll
> instead of just the most recent one).
>
> PS>
> [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Management.Automation")
>
> GAC Version Location
> --- ------- --------
> True v2.0.50727 C:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL
> \System.Management.Automation\1.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35\System.Man...
>
>
> On Mar 13, 2:27 pm, klu...@xtra.co.nz wrote:
>> How do you reference DLLs in the gac dynamically? Is there a method to
>> find a link to the gac'd items? Currently the only way I can seem to
>> reference this one dynamically to pass to CSharpCodeProvider is by
>> looking at the location of the currently loaded one with
>>
>> $(([appdomain]::currentdomain.getassemblies() |where {($_.fullname
>> -match "system.management.automation")}).location)
>>
>> $ClassSystem.CSharpCodeProvider = new-object
>> Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider
>> $ClassSystem.StandardParams = new-object
>> System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters
>> $ClassSystem.StandardParams.GenerateInMemory = $True
>>
>> $private:refs = "System.DLL","System.management.dll",
>> $(([appdomain]::currentdomain.getassemblies() |where {($_.fullname
>> -match "system.management.automation")}).location)
>>
>> $ClassSystem.StandardParams.ReferencedAssemblies.AddRange($refs)
>>
>> -Karl
>
>