In a previous post, I introduced a function called Get-Type , which allows you to see all of the types currently loaded by .NET.  What it doesn't do is help you find assemblies, the DLL files containing new types.  So while there might be 19000-odd types loaded when I launch the Windows PowerShell...

There's a simple yet powerful function that nearly everyone on the PowerShell team has written a version of.  My version is called Get-Type.  It's only a one-liner, but it's an amazing way to explore .NET and it's also an amazing example of some of the things you can do with the object pipeline...