PowerShell v3 Type Accelerators Cheat and a lot of Hot Wind

This is straight off of Hals Google+.

[PSObject].Assembly.GetType(System.Management.Automation.TypeAccelerators)::Get.GetEnumerator() | sort key | select key 

Now, to get a little more into the arcane side of all things PowerShelly, heres a little sidenote (and history): this was shifted from being a public class in v2 to an internal class in v3 as indicated by James ONeill: System.Management.Automation.TypeAccelerators broken in V3 CTP2.

To get around to seeing whats buried in there with v3 you have to resort to a little trickery (calling the assembly itself...which references all exported objects...then drill down into the DLR indirectly). This explains why you are unable to see a "clean" list of TypeAccelerators in v3. For example, v3 shows the following with my hopped up command:

# Type accelarators

[PSObject].Assembly.GetType(System.Management.Automation.TypeAccelerators)::Get.GetEnumerator() |

sort key|

select key|

% {$_.key.ToString().Trim()}

and it returns:

adsi

adsisearcher

Alias

AllowEmptyCollection

AllowEmptyString

AllowNull

array

bigint

bool

byte

char

ciminstance

CmdletBinding

cultureinfo

datetime

decimal

double

float

guid

hashtable

int

int16

int32

int64

ipaddress

long

mailaddress

NullString

OutputType

Parameter

powershell

pscredential

pscustomobject

PSDefaultValue

pslistmodifier

psmoduleinfo

psobject

psprimitivedictionary

PSTypeNameAttribute

ref

regex

runspace

runspacefactory

sbyte

scriptblock

securestring

single

string

SupportsWildcards

switch

timespan

type

uint16

uint32

uint64

uri

ValidateCount

ValidateLength

ValidateNotNull

ValidateNotNullOrEmpty

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