ConvertFrom-DBF.ps1

<# PowerShell Script to convert dbf file to csv (or almost anything else, really) without Excel.
Requires dBASE.NET.dll assembly: https://github.com/henck/dBASE.NET
This is a draft
#>

$Source   = "$PSScriptRoot\da_md_wpa.dbf"     # dbf file
$dll      = "$PSScriptRoot\dBASE.NET.dll"     # Assembly
$BaseName = (Get-Item $Source).BaseName
$Count    = $null

$Assembly = [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("$dll") # Load Assembly
$dbf      = New-Object dBASE.NET.Dbf # Load class
            $dbf.Read($Source) # Read dbf file's content
            $Headers  = $dbf.Fields.Name
            $Records  = $dbf.Records
            $Data     = $Records.Data
            $ColNum   = $Headers.Count
            

foreach ($Row in $Records) {
    $Count++
    Write-Progress -Status "Completed $Count out of $($Records.Count)"   -Activity "Converting $Source to CSV"  `
                   -PercentComplete ($Count/$Records.count*100)
    
    $obj =  New-Object PSOBject
            for ($i=0;$i -lt $ColNum;$i++){  
            $obj | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name $Headers[$i] -Value $Row[$i] }
                   $Results = [array]$Results + $obj
                   $obj     = $null
}


$Results | Export-Csv "$PSScriptRoot\$BaseName.csv" -NoTypeInformation -Force -Verbose