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POHow can I reload modules from one open work environment to affect another working environment
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copied!<p>I have my PowerShell project broken into modules. But because they are modules I have to reload them every time I change them. So I wrote a loop that has a FileSystemWatcher and if one of the .psm1 file changes it will either reload or import that module.</p> <p>The problem is that the above loop isn't going to let me run other scripts in its working environment, so a new environment will not have the same modules loaded/reloaded for it. I need to keep these modules out of the primary default PowerShell modules folder(s). Is there a way to run the script that reloads the modules when they change in the same environment or affect a certain environment?</p> <hr> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p> <p>So I run the following Module-Loader.ps1 script. The code block associated with the 'FileChanged' event does fire when I 'save' a *.psm1 file after having been modified. However two issues occure: 1) it fires twice when I save</p> <p>2a) If the module is not loaded, it will run Import-Module $PWD\ModuleName, but it won't have actually loaded at least in the environment (if I run the same code in the environment it will load)</p> <p>2b) if it is loaded, and it tries to remove the module, it will error that none exists.</p> <pre><code># create a FileSystemWatcher on the currect directory $filter = '*.psm1' $folder = $PWD $watcher = New-object IO.FileSystemWatcher $folder, $filter -Property @{IncludeSubdirectories = $false; EnableRaisingEvents = $true; NotifyFilter = [IO.NotifyFilters]'LastWrite'} Register-ObjectEvent $watcher Changed -SourceIdentifier FileChanged -Action { $name = $Event.SourceEventArgs.Name $filename = $name.Remove($name.IndexOf('.'), 5) $loadedModule = Get-Module | ? { $_.Name -eq $filename } write-host $filename if ($loadedModule) { write-host "Reloading Module $folder\$($filename)" Reload-Module $folder\$filename } else { write-host "Importing Module $folder\$($filename)" Import-Module $folder\$filename } } </code></pre> <p>I am of the opinion that though this is being ran in a session, the code block in the event is not associated with this specific environment.</p>

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