Powershell 7 PSEdition Core

[cliveontoast]

Hi,

When I run my pickles in powershell v5 (PSEdition Desktop) the command works well.
Running in powershell v7 (PSEdition Core) doesn't work.

I understand this is probably because pickles is not build to work from powershell core edition. So it's not really much of an issue. I thought it was useful to describe the problem at least because google didn't help me initially.

If I do have capacity myself, it would be an interesting exercise to try to fix it myself.

Version 2 needs .NET 4.5 - this may be a breaking change for some, but the download sizes are much smaller now. Pickles should run faster too.

My script file Pickles_documentation.ps1 looks as follows:

# Setup variables
$root = "."
$FeatureDirectory = "$root\Features"
$DocumentationFormat = "dhtml"
$OutputDirectory = "$root\Docs\$DocumentationFormat"

# Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope CurrentUser -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted
Import-Module $env:USERPROFILE\.nuget\packages\pickles\**\tools\PicklesDoc.Pickles.Powershell.dll
 
Pickle-Features -FeatureDirectory $FeatureDirectory -OutputDirectory $OutputDirectory -DocumentationFormat   $DocumentationFormat

PS C:\xxx.Specs> .\Pickles_documentation.ps1
WARNING: The names of some imported commands from the module 'PicklesDoc.Pickles.PowerShell' include unapproved verbs that might make them less discoverable. To find the commands with unapproved verbs, run the Import-Module command again with the Verbose parameter. For a list of approved verbs, type Get-Verb.
Pickles v.2.21.0.0

Generating documentation based on the following parameters
----------------------------------------------------------
Feature Directory              : C:\xxx.Specs\Features
Output Directory               : C:\xxx.Specs\Docs\dhtml
Project Name                   : 
Project Version                : 
Language                       : en
Incorporate Test Results?      : No
Include Experimental Features? : No
Exclude Tag                    : 
Technical Tag                    : 
Pickles completed successfully

PS C:\xxx.Specs> $PSversionTable                                                                                      
Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.18362.752
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.18362.752
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

When I run it in powershell v7 it crashes

PS C:\xxx.Specs> .\Pickles_documentation.ps1
WARNING: The names of some imported commands from the module 'PicklesDoc.Pickles.PowerShell' include unapproved verbs that might make them less discoverable. To find the commands with unapproved verbs, run the Import-Module command again with the Verbose parameter. For a list of approved verbs, type Get-Verb.
Pickles v.2.21.0.0

Generating documentation based on the following parameters
----------------------------------------------------------
Feature Directory              : C:\xxx.Specs\Features
Output Directory               : C:\xxx.Specs\Docs\dhtml
Project Name                   :
Project Version                :
Language                       : en
Incorporate Test Results?      : No
Include Experimental Features? : No
Exclude Tag                    :
Technical Tag                    :
Pickle-Features: C:\xxx.Specs\Pickles_documentation.ps1:10
Line |
  10 |  Pickle-Features -FeatureDirectory $FeatureDirectory -OutputDirectory  …
     |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | Could not load type 'System.Web.Util.Utf16StringValidator' from assembly 'System.Web, Version=4.0.0.0,
     | Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.

PS C:\xxx.Specs> $PSversionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.0.3
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.0.3
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.18363
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0