Calling Powershell Pretty Console Output from c#

Question

Powershell has some pretty nifty formating modules for displaying objects, arrays, collections, dictionaries, and tabular data.

Since Powershell is all .NET, I'm assuming there is a Assembly containing the logic for this.

Who can come up with a way to call these powershell formating from .NET:

I'd imagine something like this:

Console.WriteLine(Powershell.DisplayObject(obj))

Jeffrey Snover - MSFT · Accepted Answer · 2009-02-26 03:47:14Z

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This is how you do it in V2:

PowerShell.Create().AddScript("get-Process |Out-String").Invoke()

The key thing is to call OUT-STRING.

Experiment! Enjoy! Engage!

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect

answered Feb 26, 2009 at 3:47

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what do you know about powershell anyway? ;-)

karl prosser · Accepted Answer · 2009-02-26 07:20:45Z

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you might want to control the width of the output with | out-string -width 120 for instance.

answered Feb 26, 2009 at 7:20

karl prosser

slipsec · Accepted Answer · 2009-02-26 15:54:52Z

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This might not be where you are going here but check out the Extended Type System.

Here's a good spot to start: msdn PS blog blog

answered Feb 26, 2009 at 15:54

slipsec

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