add-version-info | Add CRC checksum and version information | Reverse Engineering library

How do I add the Version and Source info to my own powershell alias?

You can't do that directly, because this information comes from an alias' enclosing module.

In other words: an alias itself doesn't contain this information, only the module that it is a part of, if any.

Conversely, this means that aliases defined outside of a module - such as interactively defined ones or ones defined via $PROFILE - do not contain this information.

Another thing to be mindful of: Get-Alias only recognizes aliases from modules that are already imported into the session - module auto-loading is not triggered in this case. This means that an alias from an auto-loading module is only known to Get-Alias if that module has already been loaded (imported) through other means, notably by invocation of any of the module's commands.

The following sample code creates a (temporary) module Foo, with a module manifest (*.psd1) in order to enable versioning, and adds two aliases, foo1 and foo2. The module is then imported, and Get-Command is used to get information about the aliases: