PowerShell - Set Alias for Loaded Assembly

Question

I use this code to load a .Net assembly to PowerShell:

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::Load(\"System.Windows.Forms, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, Publ         


        

Answer 1

You can add Powershell type accelerator (alias for type):

$accel = [PowerShell].Assembly.GetType("System.Management.Automation.TypeAccelerators")
$accel::add("mb","System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox")
[mb]::Show("Hello world")

More details can be found here and here.

WIth PowerShell 5 you can also import namespaces:

using namespace System.Windows.Forms
[MessageBox]::Show("Hello world")