' ' Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ' ' THIS CODE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ' ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ' THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A ' PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ' Imports System Imports System.Collections Imports System.Collections.Generic Imports System.Collections.ObjectModel Imports System.Text Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic Imports System.Management.Automation Imports System.Management.Automation.Host Imports System.Management.Automation.Runspaces Namespace Microsoft.Samples.PowerShell.Runspaces Class Runspace04 ''' ''' This sample uses the RunspaceInvoke class to execute ''' a script. This script will generate a terminating ''' exception that the caller should catch and process. ''' ''' Unused ''' ''' This sample demonstrates the following: ''' 1. Creating an instance of the RunspaceInvoke class. ''' 2. Using this instance to execute a string as a PowerShell script. ''' 3. Passing input objects to the script from the calling program. ''' 4. Using PSObject to extract and display properties from the objects ''' returned by this command. ''' 5. Retrieving and displaying error records that may be generated ''' during the execution of that script. ''' 6. Catching and displaying terminating exceptions generated ''' by the script being run. ''' Shared Sub Main(ByVal args() As String) ' Define a list of patterns to use in matching ' Note that the fourth pattern is not a valid regular ' expression so it will cause a terminating exception to ' be thrown when used in select-string. Dim patterns() As String = {"aa", "bc", "ab*c", "*", "abc"} ' The script to run to use the patterns. Input passed ' to the script will be available in the $input variable. Dim script As String = "$input | where {" & _ " select-string $_ -inputobject 'abc' }" ' Create an instance of the RunspaceInvoke class. Dim invoker As New RunspaceInvoke() ' Invoke the runspace. Because of the bad regular expression, ' no objects will be returned. Instead, an exception will be ' thrown. Try Dim errors As System.Collections.IList = Nothing Dim result As PSObject For Each result In invoker.Invoke(script, patterns, errors) Console.WriteLine("'{0}'", result.ToString()) Next result ' Now process any error records that were generated ' while running the script. Console.WriteLine(vbCrLf & _ "The following non-terminating errors occurred:" & vbCrLf) If Not (errors Is Nothing) AndAlso errors.Count > 0 Then Dim err As PSObject For Each err In errors System.Console.WriteLine(" error: {0}", err.ToString()) Next err End If Catch runtimeException As RuntimeException ' Trap any exception generated by the script. These exceptions ' will all be derived from RuntimeException. System.Console.WriteLine("Runtime exception: {0}: {1}" & _ vbCrLf + "{2}", _ runtimeException.ErrorRecord.InvocationInfo.InvocationName, _ runtimeException.Message, _ runtimeException.ErrorRecord.InvocationInfo.PositionMessage) End Try System.Console.WriteLine(vbCrLf + "Hit any key to exit...") System.Console.ReadKey() End Sub 'Main End Class 'Runspace04 End Namespace