WPF & PowerShell - Exception setting "Name": " is not a valid value for property 'Name'."

Question

Hello, I'm trying to build an ADUC browser by using WPF and PowerShell but I'm stuck at a WPF peculiarity by which its naming convention does not consider spaces inside an element's name. Some OUs in AD have names with at least two words and spaces between them.

Answer 1

Spaces are not allowed in other projects too: WPF, Forms. You can replace spaces with underscore, probably like this (in several places):

$itemName = $item.Name.Trim().Replace( " ", "_" )

Also make sure that the name contains only letters, digits, and underscore, and starts with letter or underscore.

Maybe you can also leave the Name of treeview item unassigned.

Answer 2

or if anybody knows of a sample of WPF/PowerShell please let me know. I can't use C# as per requirements I have for the project.

Answer 3

Many thanks! As said I already did the trim to no avail. What did the trick was actually to leave the $item name unassigned!

Cheers man!