Referencing system management automation dll in Visual Studio

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I am beginning to look into the PowerShell model and snap-in development  The first thing I notice is to reference System management automation dll  However in Visual Studio  the  NET tab does not have that assembly  and nor is one able browse to   C  windows assembly GAC MSIL System Management Automation 1 0 0 0  31bf3856ad364e35 System Management Automation dll   to make a file-based reference   Am i forced to copy the file out manually to make an easy reference

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if it is 64bit them - C  Program Files  x86  Reference Assemblies Microsoft WindowsPowerShell  3 0    and version could be different

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The assembly coming with Powershell SDK  C  Program Files Reference Assemblies Microsoft WindowsPowerShell v1 0  does not come with Powershell 2 specific types   Manually editing the csproj file solved my problem

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If you don t want to install the Windows SDK you can get the dll by running the following command in powershell   Copy   PSObject  Assembly Location  C

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I couldn t get the SDK to install properly  some of the files seemed unsigned  something like that   I found another solution here and that seems to work okay for me  It doesn t require installation of new files at all  Basically  what you do is   Edit the  csproj file in a text editor  and add    lt Reference Include  System Management Automation    gt    to the relevant section   Hope this helps

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A copy of System Management Automation dll is installed when you install the windows SDK  a suitable  recent version of it  anyway   It should be in C  Program Files Reference Assemblies Microsoft WindowsPowerShell v1 0

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I used the VS Project Reference menu and browsed to  C  windows assembly GAC MSIL System Management Automation and added a reference for the dll and the Runspaces dll   I did not need to hack the  csprj file and add the reference line mentioned above   I do not have the Windows SDK installed     I did do the Powershell copy mentioned above   Copy   PSObject  Assembly Location  C    My test with a Get-Process Powershell command then worked    I used examples from Powershell for developers Chapter 5

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You can also use nuget  https   www nuget org packages System Management Automation   It is maybe a better option

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System Management Automation on Nuget  System Management Automation dll on NuGet  newer package from 2015  not unlisted as the previous one   Microsoft PowerShell team packages un NuGet  Update  package is now owned by PowerShell Team  Huzzah

[visual-studio] Referencing system.management.automation.dll in Visual Studio

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