Have you ever just wanted to run a line or two of C# from within PowerShell and consume the resulting objects from PowerShell? Before V2 you had to do some codedom yourself Plus write a full dotnet class yourself. With V2 you can just do add-type but still you have to write a full class just to run an expression. Anyway how about a year ago after getting fed up with doing that, and also after seeing Mono's C# commandline interface i thought lets do something quick and dirty that could do this.. with the script that will follow you can do stuff like (c being an alias for the function that compiles and runs a C# expression

(c DateTime.Now).adddays(5)
(c "new{a=1,b=2,c=3}").b
c 'from x in Directory.GetFiles(@"f:\downloads") where x.Contains("win") select x'

an interesting thing i found out, was that with the C# compiler in memory i can't create more than one anonymous type (2nd Read More »

Though we don’t have intentions to carry developing PowerShell Analyzer much in the future, there are a number of improvements in my personal fork, and we want to make sure that it keeps its shelf life by updating it for PowerShell V2. Surprisingly we are still getting hundreds of downloads a day so we want to make sure that those who prefer PSA can still keep using it and also take advantage of the features I use day in and day out. We’ll probably release some new builds within the next couple of weeks, but will post some screenshots and maybe videos until then. We hope that will minimal effort keep PSA the best free PowerShell tool. Read more below to see the screenshots and examples