I wrote countless scripts and a good amount of modules (and functions) in my years as Service Engineer but all of them are script modules, I never really created binary modules. The main reason is that I like to write in Powershell but I also like the fact that, not being a compiled language, it is very easy to share and modify the source code for a script module and it is immediately ready to be reloaded and used. Anyway out of curiosity and to learn a different approach to building modules, I decided to try to convert one of mine from script to binary; my first step was (of course) a quick search to find some samples and getting started articles and I found a few good ones (referenced below) but all of them use Visual Studio and the full version of the .NET Framework, while I want to use Visual Studio Code and .NET Core. So here’s what I came up with. First off of course I need .NET Core (I am using the latest .NET Core 3 preview 8 at the moment), Visual Studio Code and the C# Extension. Next, I’m going to create a Class Library…
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