# Beyond Cmdlets

Beyond Cmdlets: All of .NET at Your Fingertips.

Updated: November 10, 2026

1. [All of .NET at Your Fingertips](https://www.ask-codey.com/lessons/powershell-dotnet) (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.

Source: https://www.ask-codey.com/courses/powershell-in-depth/topics/powershell-beyond-cmdlets