How to access a chipcard from powershell?

Question

I'd like to send a chipcard command (an APDU) to a chipcard and read the response from the chipcard.

Because there should be no extra install on the windows system, I'd like to do it within windows powershell.

Is there an easy way to do this?

Answer 1

I would suggest you find a .NET component capable of sending commands to an APDU. Here's an example of a for pay component. Once you have a .NET component it should be pretty easy to use from PowerShell sans a few known issues like not be able to easily call generic methods and not being able to create classes/implement interfaces in PowerShell script.