Get Latest Solution Patch Name With PowerShell

Someone might find this useful if trying to move solutions around using Azure DevOps & PowerShell. I wanted to automate export of the latest solution patch using the Microsoft.Xrm.Data.Powershell library as part of a build pipeline. It’s pretty straightforward but it requires the solution name, simple for the base solution but when dealing with a patch it’s not possible to predict what the name is going be in order to build it into your script.

I came up with this. Given a solution uniquename this sets build variables for the uniquename & version of the latest patch of a solution or the base solution's uniquename & version if no patches exist.