Using .Net Objects within a Powershell (V5) Class
Every PowerShell script is completely parsed before the first statement in the script is executed. An unresolvable type name token inside a class definition is considered a parse error. To solve your problem, you have to load your types before the class definition is parsed, so the class definition has to be in a separate file. For example:
Main.ps1:
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Printing
Add-Type -AssemblyName ReachFramework
. $PSScriptRoot\Class.ps1
Class.ps1:
using namespace System.Management
using namespace System.Printing
Class PrinterObject
{
[string]$Name
[PrintServer]$Server
[PrintQueue]$Queue
[PrintTicket]$Ticket
[ManagementObject]$Unit
[bool]$IsDefault
}
The other possibility would be embed Class.ps1
as a string and use Invoke-Expression
to execute it. This will delay parsing of class definition to time where types is available.
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Printing
Add-Type -AssemblyName ReachFramework
Invoke-Expression @‘
using namespace System.Management
using namespace System.Printing
Class PrinterObject
{
[string]$Name
[PrintServer]$Server
[PrintQueue]$Queue
[PrintTicket]$Ticket
[ManagementObject]$Unit
[bool]$IsDefault
}
’@