Powershell: No support of System.Management.Automation for .net framework

[kriti218]

In my project, we are using .net framework 4.6,2 and want to call powershell from our c# code. When i went to nuget to install the required library (System.Management.Automation), i could see that 6.x.x onward versions are available and all support .net core and not .net framework.

my ask is how should i use or call powershell in my application as i cant upgrade it to .net core. It is a legacy application. I could manage to find one "Install-Package System.Management.Automation.dll -Version 10.0.10586" whicb alteast let me use PS but that is a deprecated one.

Please suggest how can i get old versions of above library from nuget for .net framework as that is blocking my work currently as we are short of time now.

[powercode]

You should be able to use https://www.nuget.org/packages/PowerShellStandard.Library

Version 5.1 works with Windows Powershell.

PowerShellStandard.Library 5.1.0

Contains the reference assemblies for PowerShell Standard 5

[alx9r]

@powercode Is PowerShellStandard.Library 5.1.0 meant to supercede Microsoft.PowerShell.5.ReferenceAssemblies? Or do those have different purposes?

[powercode]

The standard library should work for .net core pwsh also.

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