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How PSScriptBuilder Analyzes PowerShell Dependencies — and What Happens When They Form a Cycle

DEV Community·Tim Hartling·about 1 month ago
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If you've read the first article in this series , you already know that PSScriptBuilder resolves PowerShell class load order automatically. This article goes one level deeper: what exactly does PSScriptBuilder analyze, how does it build a dependency graph, and what happens when that graph contains a cycle? What PSScriptBuilder Extracts When PSScriptBuilder processes your source files, it runs AST analysis on every collected component and extracts the following dependency information: Component Dependencies extracted Class Base class, type references (properties, method parameters), static initializer references, called functions Function Called functions, type references Enum None — enums have no outgoing dependencies and always appear first Built-in types ( string , int , bool , System.* , etc.) are automatically excluded — only types that are part of your project create graph edges.…

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