fearthecowboy

  /// ... somewhere in your cmdlet (might need to be PSCmdlet?)

  private const BindingFlags BindingFlags = System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Instance | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Public;
  // provided you have a tasty function to reflect private fields/properties
  protected object TryGetProperty(object instance, string fieldName) {
      // any access of a null object returns null. 
      if (instance == null || string.IsNullOrEmpty(fieldName)) {
          return null;
      }