Beyond Cmdlets

Beyond Cmdlets: All of .NET at Your Fingertips.

Updated November 10, 2026

1. All of .NET at Your Fingertips (Freelancer): Under every cmdlet is .NET, a library of thousands of ready-made tools, and PowerShell reaches any of them directly: a type in square brackets and :: call its static members, such as [Math]::Round, [IO.Path]::GetExtension and [Guid]::NewGuid(), and Add-Type compiles a few lines of C# into tools of your own.