Making my C# application manageable via PowerShell

Question

I would like to create PowerShell cmdlets that interact with my application at runtime. Are there any best practices on how to accomplish this?

Answer 1

There are several options. You could some form of IPC mechanism: named pipes, memory mapped files, MSMQ, etc. The cmdlets could communicate to the app via a socket. If the app is managed, it could host a WCF endpoint that the cmdlets could use to communicate with the app. You could also expose a COM API and then control the app via that API. I'm sure there are several other ways I've failed to mention.