Run my third-party DLL file with PowerShell - powershell

Question

I am not sure if this is possible or not with PowerShell.
But basically I have a Windows Forms program that configures a program called EO Server. The EO Server has an API, and I make a reference to EOServerAPI.dll to make the following code run.
using EOserverAPI;
...
private void myButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
String MDSConnString="Data Source=MSI;Initial Catalog=EOMDS;Integrated Security=True;";
//Create the connection
IEOMDSAPI myEOMDSAPI = EOMDSAPI.Create(MDSConnString);
//Get JobID
Guid myMasterJobID = myEOMDSAPI.GetJobID("myJobRocks");
}
Is it possible to interact with an API DLL file and make the same types of calls as you would in a Windows Forms application?

Answer 1

Yes, you can:
Add-Type -Path $customDll
$a = new-object custom.type
You call a static method like so:
[custom.type]::method()
Instead of Add-Type, you can also use reflection:
[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile($customDll)
(Note that even the above is calling the Reflection library and the LoadFile static method.)

Answer 2

Take a look at the blog post Load a Custom DLL from PowerShell. If you can interact with an object in .NET, you can probably do it in PowerShell too.

Answer 3

Actually the other offered solutions don't work for me, here it's an alternative that works perfectly for me:
$AssemblyPath = "C:\SomePath\SomeLIB.dll"
$bytes = [System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes($AssemblyPath)
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load($bytes)

Answer 4

c# dll
Add-Type -Path $dllPath
(new-object namespace.class)::Main() #Where namespace=dllnamespace, class=dllclass, Main()=dllstartvoid
info. get namespace&classes
$types = Add-Type -Path $dllPath -PassThru
$types | ft fullname
$types
if it's not "executable" dll (something get/set dll) then this is the best that i know (not needed vs for sample dll creating):
https://kazunposh.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/проверка-корректного-ввода-distinguished-name-в-скри/