Getting information from the current state (or context) of PowerShell from C #

Question

I saw several code examples that let you load specific PowerShell scripts from C # and then call special functions from scripts:

// "dot-source my functions" ps.AddScript(". .\MyFunctions.ps1", $false) ps.Invoke() 

My question is: now that this has been done, all the functions inside this file are loaded globally; is there any way to access them as objects from c # code?

I would like to see from the code which functions were loaded into the global context, and then analyze them (see their list of parameters, etc.).

Is it possible?

Thanks lior

Answer 1

Sure. There are many ways. Perhaps the easiest way is to call "dir function: \". Now this last sentence may bake your noodles a bit, but this is what I will do. It returns a collection of FunctionInfo instances that has a lot of metadata on it.

Answer 2

Another similar option, if you are using v2, was to turn your PS1 file into PSM1 (PowerShell module). Then from C # you can use the command

 import-module path\to\module\myfunctions.psm1 

From there you can execute the command

 get-command -module myfunctions