Running the following code resulting in an HostException;
Public Sub RunPowershellInConsole(ByVal scriptText As String)
Dim config = RunspaceConfiguration.Create
Dim args() As String = New String() {scriptText}
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I have made my application to start automaticly when windows start (registry ../currentversion/run/appname + path). In this mode the application start minimized and an little icon appear in the notification icon area. With this icon you can maximize the app or exit it.If you exit the app and start it again using the Menu (Start/programs etc) than the application start in minimized mode (and in this case I would like to have it in normal mode) because the setting autostart is still true.Is there a way you can detect when the application start when windows startup using the above registry or when people click on an icon in the programs menu (or desktop)?
View 2 RepliesIm trying to create an app that will do some funky things with new users/leaving users and apply a load of business requirements around this. After playing about with Powershell forms, ive decided to embedd powershell within a VB.net app.I am using the following code, which is always returning "Nothing", as in no result, which is causing me a real headache. The same code works with Get-QADuser, and Get-Command, just not Get-Mailbox.I will also need to call New-Mailbox and othe commands later on in the proces.
Imports
System.Management.Automation.Runspaces
Imports
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I need to call Powershell commands via my code and I find at least 2 different examples of doing this. I'm wondering what the differences between the methods are and why I would use one as opposed to the other.The first (simpler?) method goes something like this:
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I also know that with either method I can pipe the command to out-string to make Powershell return strings instead of objects.My question is, which method should I use and why? They both seem the same to me.
I have a file full of last-names separated by commas and then first-names.
Smith,Bob
Chicken,Ronald
Car,Anastasia
Code:
gc permissions.csv|% {$_.split(",")[0]}
I'd like to grab the first character of the first name and then pre-pend it to the string of the last name. The general idea is to find the user ID that's stored in Active Directory, in my company it's the first letter of the first name and then the last name.
Then I'm trying to add these users as read-only on a specific directory.
I took the dive into learning VBScript due to some server side scripts that I work with. During a course I ran into Powershell and did some Google searching. From what I was reading, VBScript is good for legacy applications and Powershell is the way to go for Win7. I did not run into anything telling me of this being true or if its a false statement and VBScript will be used for Win7 and Win8. Should I look into learning Powershell and abort my VBScript for now and just worry about VBScript for legacy systems?
View 1 RepliesI am trying to create a programma that gathers system data like CPU name and speed and Physical Memory things like that
i succeeded in loading the data i use:
Dim searcher As ManagementObjectSearcher = _
New ManagementObjectSearcher("select * from Win32_Processor")
For Each oReturn As ManagementObject In searcher.Get()
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I'm evaluating the best approach to implement the following periodic task:
Get some users from SQL Server (2008) and then for each user enable licences in the Cloud (Office 365) using PowerShell.
My first thought was a console-based app in C# or VB.net but now that I realize that running a PS Script remotely using C# can be quite a challenge I'm starting to think in alternatives like perform all the stuff using PowerShell, I guess this is a better approach but I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.
We use VB2005, Along with Powershell to manage our exchange infrastructure. VB.Net codes have been compiled to support MIIS2003 Operations. One of the operations require the functions in VB.net to write an output into .csv file. This file receives jibberish characters as input after the functions are executed.
View 1 RepliesI have to call PS commands from a VB.NET program. This works fine if I'm calling standard PS commands, but if I have to call a command that lives in a 3rd party module I can't seem to make it work. At the PS console I can type Import-Module MyModule and then I can call the commands in that module. I tried the following but it doesn't work, I still can't access my command from within the module:
Dim PowerShell As Management.Automation.PowerShell = PowerShell.Create()
Dim PowerShellCommand As New PSCommand()
Dim PowerShellCommandResults As Object
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I have a Powershell script and no matter what I try it completly ignores any quotation marks in the script. The error occurs when I run the script from my VB.NET code yet, I have been running scripts sucessfully through VB.NET for a while now. For example, my script starts with finding out the server name...
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I currently have an ASP.NET programming creating a Powershell CmdLet to create a mailbox in exchange. The issue I'm having is sometimes is fails to create the mailbox because "it can't find" the exchange database I am specifying. So what I'm trying to do is run a Get-Mailbox and then pipe the results to an Enable-Mailbox command. Below is the code I am using to do it:
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I'm needing to run scripts from within a vb.net windows app. I've got the scripts running in the background fine;
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I'm currently having issues calling a .ps1 file in my vb.net project. The program is supposed to provide a simple way for end users to unlock Active Directory accounts. The vb.net project is simply a text box with a button. Users will type the username of the locked account. When the button is pressed, the program writes whatever is in the text box into a CSV file. The CSV file has a samAccountName column in it. After the file is written to, the program then calls a Powershell script that reads the CSV file and unlocks the account based upon what is in the file.The program does everything it is supposed to except for calling the Powershell script to actually unlock the account. I've tried a Process.Start(filePath) which would open the file, but opened in notepad and didn't execute anything. Right now the program is calling a batch file which is supposed to run the script in Powershell but that attempt also failed.
View 3 RepliesI'd like to start off by saying I'm not really a programmer just a sysadmin who likes to dabble (so simple answers would be nice ;) ),I've created a webapp that's used by some less technical folk to do basic administration tasks(User provisioning through our IDM, Updating passwords, Disabling accounts, Editing user details, etc)there's also a couple of exchange functions that are currently handled by exporting a CSV that a separate powershell script processes.I'm trying to bring these powershell functions into the application to reduce complexity but I'm having some trouble.
When I execute the "Add-MailboxPermission" command I get no return output (nor does it apply the change) at all, unless I put no parameters,in which case it throws the expected missing parameters exception (Not scientific but proves it's loading the exchange plugin fine and executing):
private sub cmdMbxFullAccess(sender as object, e as eventargs)
Dim psRunSpaceConf As RunspaceConfiguration = RunspaceConfiguration.Create()
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If however I issue a simpler command like "Get-Host | Out-String" I get return output as expected. Thus far I have checked that the user context it's running under has the correct permissions and tried executing the command from the powershell prompt on that server to make sure that there isn't some other external issue I am overlooking.how I can further debug this, it's like the command disappears into the ether never to be heard from again!
I'd like to start off by saying I'm not really a programmer just a sysadmin who likes to dabble (so simple answers would be nice ;) ), I've created a webapp that's used by some less technical folk to do basic administration tasks (User provisioning through our IDM, Updating passwords, Disabling accounts, Editing user details, etc) there's also a couple of exchange functions that are currently handled by exporting a CSV that a separate powershell script processes. I'm trying to bring these powershell functions into the application to reduce complexity but I'm having some trouble.
When I execute the "Add-MailboxPermission" command I get no return output (nor does it apply the change) at all, unless I put no parameters, in which case it throws the expected missing parameters exception (Not scientific but proves it's loading the exchange plugin fine and trying to execute):
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I have the following powershell script which loads a custom .NET DLL this contains the ScriptResult class, it is intern executed from a VB.NET app.
Add-Type -Path $myLibPath
$result = New-Object TheLibrary.ScriptResult
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I wonder if it is possible to write and capture errors when running a script to PowerShell.In my case I am using the following code:[code]' add an extra command to transform the script output objects into nicely formatted strings' remove this line to get the actual objects that the script returns, for example, see the script "Get-Process" returns a collection.[code]
View 4 RepliesJust a quick question, I want to stop the end users from being able to resize a GUI that I've created.
$objForm = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
$objForm.Text = "ADX v2.1.2.0"
$objForm.minimumSize = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(965,665)
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I followed Ziannb article on involking powershell from visual basic. It works great but it doesnt allow me to run scripts with [URL]
- how can i run powershell scripts with arguments from VB
- how can i run one powershell command line at a time from VB. When i use below two command, it pipes the first command to the second one..instead of running them individually :
MyPipeline.Commands.Add("get-childitem")
MyPipeline.Commands.Add("get-date")
I am trying to run powershell script from VB and I want to see the output of the script as it is running inside a console application. With my script (shown below) when I run from powershell it shows "Command Sleep Starting" and then waits for 5 seconds and then displays the other text.
However, when I run from VB.NET program, the execution waits for 5 seconds and dumps all the text output at once. It doesn't execute first Write-Output command and then wait and then output as it should.[code]...
I have custom asynchronous WebRequest class that I am testing to find out how fast the request will be cancelled and found some odd results, that starting 6 WebRequests with TPL and cancelling them right away takes 25 sec, but when I used just regular background threads it took only 5 sec.
Update: Running them without cancelling takes with Task.Start 9 sec and Thread.Start 3 sec accordingly.
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Threading
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im using vs to create a simple security form, i am successful to create a a form of log but i need some more improve like
1) if the software remain untouch for a minute the login form should be shown as the user try to use it again
2) and how the software start automatically when window start
I'm using Process.Start to start an external command line application and using the StartInfo.Arguments method to send parameters to the application. I imagine I'll need to use a loop... but I can't figure out exactly how yet.I need to send anywhere from 1 - an infinite number of files names to this application. Each file has to be sent one after the other. So once the first one is done, I need to loop back around and past the second one.I can probably use the Directory.GetFiles method to get all of the files, but I don't know how to assign them.
View 7 RepliesI created 3 timers, i want each timer to take turn start which means timer1 stop then timer2 start, once timer2 stop timer3 start. But my code seem to be running together once i click the play button.And is there any ways to easy control how my picturebox move? Because my code for controlling it movement need to keep finding the correct number for it to move.
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Visual Basic 2010 - Net Framework 4.0 Client
I have an application (application #1) running with Administrator privileges on Windows 7.
I want application # 1 to start another application (application #2) without Administrator privileges so application #2 is running as a standard user.
Is there a way to do this? I have been using Process.Start.
Here's what I currently have:
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I've commented out various things to limit it to specifically this command (example, I can swap mklink out with notepad and it works fine). The command runs fine from a DOS window, but can't be found when I use it this way. I also tried using the SHELL command just to test and I get the same results. No idea why it can't be found, as like I said it executes from the command prompt just fine.
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View 3 RepliesI am confused with the terms Build ,rebuild ,start , start without debugging in VS.NET.After writing the code what actually we want to do .We have to run directly by pressing F5 key or we have to build the solution .Usually i tried to run the application after coding and if shows any any errors i will fix that and run again .I never used build or rebuild thing .What exactly meant by building the solution .What is meant by rebuild and start without debugging.
View 5 RepliesHow can I get my application to load the Sub Main at the start rather than loading a form on start up.
I have tried declaring 'Public Sub Main' on my forms and in some modules, yet in my project properties, it is not one of the options.