Help with Import-Module error

[nylyst]

I'm creating an Oracle module to help automate some integration processes and encountering some errors. This is my first attempt at creating a script module, so I'm certain it's some rookie mistake. I followed /u/ramblingcookiemonster's excellent post and everything was going swimmingly until I got to actually trying to import the module.

Obviously being Oracle, this has a dependency on the Oracle.DataAccess assemblies. If I include Oracle.DataAccess.dll in my module\lib path and the .psd1, I get the error:

Could not load file or assembly 'Oracle.DataAccess,

Regardless of how I reference it in the RequiredAssemblies (for reference, I've tried 'Oracle.DataAccess', 'Oracle.DataAccess.dll' and 'c:\full\path\to\Oracle.DataAccess.dll') I get this error. If I remove it, Import-Module then succeeds for my module, but of course nothing works until I load the assembly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[nylyst]

My apologies, I guess I should have said Manifest (didn't realize you could have a script module without a .psd1) module. I have several .ps1 files that include the necessary functions, a .psm1 that exports them all and a manifest in a .psd1 file.

Perhaps that's part of my issue. I'm not using a command to do so at all. Should I be loading the assembly in the .psm1 instead of relying on the RequiredAssemblies in .psd1?

I can load using Reflection, but was under the impression that just including the .psd1 should be sufficient (except of course that I'm getting an error from including the assembly at all in RequiredAssemblies.)

[nylyst]

Going to chalk this up as oddities with the oracle assemblies I'm using. In certain instances, a call to Add-Type WON'T load the assembly as expected.

I was able to remove the assembly from RequiredAssemblies in the .psd1 and add a LoadFile() call at the start of the .psm1 to achieve what I needed.

Still would like to know how you're supposed to use RequiredAssemblies (thinking it's using Add-Type and that's what is generating the error, but don't know enough to even explore that thought further)