Visual basic and PowerShell output

Question

Hi,

I am using PowerShell to get the information about the OS Name, Time Zone etc.

I want this PS output to be displayed on VB.net form application.
Have three buttons on a vb form, is it possible to get output of the PS into the VB form?

Answer 1

Is the form something your writing in VB and then wanting to call to powershell to grab that info? If so, can you not just read that info using VB?

Do you want to click each button and it then does something to return that info from PS or are you just wanting the button text to show that information from PS?

Unless I'm missing something obvious here it might be worth trying to clear up exactly what your goal is?

Answer 2

See threads like Unable To Get PowerShell Output
(C#, but same code in VB...)
(But you can use Win32 APIs with P/Invoke)

Answer 3

The Powershell cmdlet's are just issuing WMI calls. Just have your VB code call WMI directly.

https://www.codeproject.com/questions/292691/help-with-wim-vb-net-coding

https://www.emmet-gray.com/Articles/WMI_Intro.html