Calling COM and .NET from PowerShell — Widening What Your Scripts Can Reach (archived 2026-08-30)
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Abstract
A practical guide to calling .NET classes from PowerShell, embedding C# and Win32 APIs with Add-Type, driving COM, cleaning up leftover Excel processes, why unattended Office automation is unsupported, and the differences between 5.1 and 7. Archived version of https://comcomponent.com/en/blog/powershell-com-dotnet-interop/, as published on 2026-08-30. The live article is maintained and may change after this date. First published 2026-07-18.
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View paper (DOI)Open access versionOpenAlexZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)Published 2026-08-30
Authors: Go Komura
Institutions: Fujikura (United States)