Powershell
can be used to call both static and instance methods present in your classes. Suppose
the dll is present in the GAC, the first thing we need to do is to load the
dll. This can be done in two ways:
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load("NY.Export, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3796069b4027c3a5")
OR
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("NY.Export")
If the dll is
present at any location in the drive, we can use LoadFile:
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("c:\Test\NY.Export.dll")
Suppose, you
have a static method in your class, then it can be called like this:
[NY.Export.SharepointUtility]::TailorContractLibrary($web, $libraryName, $listTemplate)
Where NY.Export
is the name of the namespace and SharepointUtility is the name of
the class and
TailorContractLibrary is the name of the static method.
Similarly,
the instance method can be called by first creating the object of the class
and then
calling the method on newly created object:
$obj = New-Object NY.Export.SharepointUtility
$list = $obj.GetContractLibrary($libraryName)
Here
GetContractLibrary is the name of instance method in class SharepointUtility