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Background pipelines inside fallback configuration ASTs could be mistaken for DSC resource declarations, suppressing expected Get- corrections.

• Resource detection: Exclude background command pipelines and background following-line body pipelines.
• Regressions: Cover both same-line and following-line & forms, including:

  Verb Argument {} &
  gci .
  {} &

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🟡 Changes recommended

Unconditional test counts fail in Windows PowerShell 5.1 CI because the new guarded cases are excluded, so expectations must be version-dependent or the added cases moved to PowerShell 6+ tests.

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• Make pipeline test counts compatible with Windows PowerShell 5.1 · New

What changed in this PR

This PR corrects fallback DSC resource detection so background pipelines remain eligible for alias expansion and missing Get- prefix corrections.

Changes:

• Reject background command pipelines and background following-line body pipelines as DSC resources.
• Add regression cases for both forms and update diagnostic counts.

File	Description
Tests/​Rules/​AvoidUsingAlias.tests.ps1	Adds same-line and following-line background pipeline regressions.
Rules/​AvoidAlias.cs	Adds Core-only background pipeline checks to DSC resource detection.

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• Make pipeline test counts compatible with Windows PowerShell 5.1

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