Powershell script with a background job inside called from c#

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I call a Powershell script from a c# program, getting back an collection of PSObjects as a result of pipeline.Invoke(). As a part of the PS script, an email is sent using Net.Mail.SmtpClient. However, sending an email takes some time, so I moved the email sending code into a script block that is executed using Start-Jon -ScriptBlock... And here the problem started: email is not sent. When I execute a script from a command line, it sends an email.

What can be the reason?

Not really. pipeline return no errors, script works (in a sense that it returns processed data back to the c# program. Just email is not sent. — Tomasz Plonka
– Tomasz Plonka, Commented Feb 14, 2013 at 9:05
Have you tried running a "dumber" script i.e. one that just writes the arguments/parameters you are passing to a file instead of emailing. — Tommy Grovnes
– Tommy Grovnes, Commented Feb 14, 2013 at 9:45

Tomasz Plonka · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-14 16:57:33Z

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Actually, after adding Wait-Job to the code (making it synchronous) it worked again. I think that I got it. I was calling runspace.Close() at the end of my code that terminated the host so the Powershell background job had no chance to be executed. So I looking in the wrong place, unfortunately.

answered Feb 14, 2013 at 16:57

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