This line of code will sort system DLLs based on file version. However, it turns out that it sorts incorrectly:
dir $env:windir\system32 -filter *.dll |`
Select-Object -ExpandProperty VersionInfo |`
Select-Object FileName, ProductVersion | Sort-Object ProductVersion
Sort-Object will sort alphabetically because the property ProductVersion uses a string type. Did you know that Sort-Object will accept script blocks so you can dynamically correct this? Here is the correct version, which will cast the property to the correct data type before sorting it:
dir $env:windir\system32 -filter *.dll |`
Select-Object -ExpandProperty VersionInfo |`
Select-Object FileName, ProductVersion |`
Sort-Object { try {[System.Version]$_.ProductVersion } catch { 0 }}
However, you should note how the script block uses try/catch so if a DLL file uses an invalid version format, these will appear at the beginning of that list so the catch block declares invalid version information to be lower than 0.
