I want to use a data type from a Universal Windows Platform library, how can I reference the containing namespace or assembly in PowerShell?
For example, I want to use t
Shortly after posting this question, I stumbled on the GitHub repo for BurntToast, a module that allows raising UWP Toast Notifications from PowerShell, and it references the WinRT ToastNotificationManager type like this:
[Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastNotificationManager, Windows.UI.Notifications, ContentType = WindowsRuntime]
So, it looks like the syntax I'm after for UWP classes is:
[,,ContentType = WindowsRuntime]
With this in mind, I tried it with the example I gave in the question and lo and behold:
PS C:\> $jsonObjectClass = [Windows.Data.Json.JsonObject,Windows.Data.Json,ContentType=WindowsRuntime]
PS C:\> $jsonObject = $jsonObjectClass::Parse('{"data":["powershell","rocks"]}')
PS C:\> $jsonObject
Key Value
--- -----
data ["powershell","rocks"]
After referencing the type name once, I seem to be able to use the class name in a type literal without qualifying it as well:
[Windows.Data.Json.JsonObject]::Parse("{}") # works without throwing errors now
Still very keen to find any documentation on this though