.NET Core changes to return "shortest roundtrippable string" by default for the ToString() method of double and float types. This results in ToString() for double/float values sometimes return a string in 17-digit/9-digit precision format. This PR updated the double/float-to-string conversion in PowerShell to continue using the old precision specifier before the change in .NET Core 3.0.
Support calling methods with ByRef-like type parameters in PowerShell, as long as the argument specified for the parameter can be implicitly/explicitly converted to the ByRef-like type.
We cannot create an instance of a ByRef-like type in PowerShell, but there are types that can be implicitly or explicitly converted to ByRef-like types, such as `T[] -> Span<T>`, `T[] -> ReadOnlySpan<T>`, `String -> ReadOnlySpan<T>`. `ArraySegment<T> -> Span<T>`, `ArraySegment<T> -> ReadOnlySpan<T>`. With changes in this PR, we can call methods with ByRef-like parameter types by providing the arguments of the types that can be cast to the target ByRef-like type.
**What is enabled?**
1. Invoking methods that have ByRef-like parameters, but the return type is not ByRef-like.
2. Invoking constructors with ByRef-like parameters via `[target-type]::new` syntax, but the `target-type` is not ByRef-like.
3. Accessing indexers that have ByRef-like parameters, but the return type is not ByRef-like.
ByRef-like types are supposed to be used on stack only, so we need to fail gracefully when accessing properties, calling methods, or creating objects related to ByRef-like types.
Based on standard practices, we need to have a copyright and license notice at the top of each source file. Removed existing copyrights and updated/added copyright notices for .h, .cpp, .cs, .ps1, and .psm1 files.
Updated module manifests for consistency to have Author = "PowerShell" and Company = "Microsoft Corporation". Removed multiple line breaks.
Separate PR coming to update contribution document for new source files: #6140
Manually reviewed each change.
Fix#6073
* Fix GetType() bad pattern and related issues in tests
$var.GetType() can raise an exception in tests so we should check $var
before make the call. A large part of the tests does not make this
check.
I start with searching ".GetType()" but discovered many related issues
in tests (reduntant and unneeded tests, "throw" bad pattens, bugs,
formattings (sorry!) and so on) - I had to fix them too.
* Fix after code review
* Second wave of migration GetType() -> BeOfType
Removed 'GetType().Name' patterns.
This restructuring moves tests to a directory name which matches the module
in which the cmdlet resides which should improve the discoverability of a
specific test.
For tests which are not about cmdlets in a module, new directories have been
created to make those tests easier to find as well
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