Calling Powershell script in ISE mode

Question

Hi All,

I have a powershell script which is called from a powershell scripts using the following command:

Start-Process powershell_ISE "$PSScriptRoot!AD_UsrGrp_Chk.ps1"

It works fine as it should. It open the script in PowerShell ISE mode but stop there. I want it to run the script at the same time without any click. I was just wondering if anyone can give a any suggestions if it is possible. Currently it looks like this:

I want this to run automatically.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You can use SendKeys to send a F5 key to the process like this, let's say it's the content of main.ps1:

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
Start-Process powershell_ISE "$PSScriptRoot\test.ps1"
# Wait a bit
Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
# Press F5
[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait("{F5}")

Then it opens the test.ps1 file which I assume is located beside the current script.

Note: Do not test this solution in ISE, because once the main script is running, it cannot run test.ps1. So, to test, in a shell command line, run the main script like this:

powershell.exe c:\myfiles\main.ps1