Question

Apologies if I’ve framed the question incorrectly but I’m not sure where it fits in exactly.

I am executing a powershell script from C# which returns a collection of type PSObject. The data I want is contained in the field BaseObject and when debugging it tells me its type is (PowerShellInside.NetCmdlets.Commands.MessageInfoObject) and I can see all the information there. So my question is assuming that a 3rd party vendor assembly is not available to be referenced, what is the correct approach to retrieving data from this object say

(PowerShellInside.NetCmdlets.Commands.MessageInfoObject).Subject

Do you create your own version of this class omitting what you dont need or is there some neat dynamic typing that can be done.

Answer 1

I’m not a POSH developer so I’ll take this from the C# angle.

I’ll assume PSObject is the equivalent of System.Object and MessageInfoObject is the type returned from the script… I’d say using something like the following should work:

dynamic msgInfo = ExecutePOSHScript(...);