In previous chapters we have have covered the use of the .NET framework from within Windows PowerShell. In this chapter we will look at leveraging Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) from with via Windows PowerShell. In particular the issue of launching and interacting with applications and working with the Windows desktop from whithin within PowerShell will be covered.
== Listing Available COM Objects ==
Exception encountered, of type "Error"
[9160c8e9] /index.php/Special:MobileDiff/6583 Error from line 434 of /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php: Call to undefined function each()
Backtrace:
#0 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(544): DiffEngine->diag()
#1 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(344): DiffEngine->compareSeq()
#2 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(227): DiffEngine->diffLocal()
#3 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(721): DiffEngine->diff()
#4 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(859): Diff->__construct()
#5 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DairikiDiff.php(980): MappedDiff->__construct()
#6 /var/www/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/diff/InlineDiffFormatter.php(99): WordLevelDiff->__construct()
#7 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DiffFormatter.php(140): InlineDiffFormatter->changed()
#8 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DiffFormatter.php(82): DiffFormatter->block()
#9 /var/www/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/diff/InlineDifferenceEngine.php(117): DiffFormatter->format()
#10 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DifferenceEngine.php(797): InlineDifferenceEngine->generateTextDiffBody()
#11 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DifferenceEngine.php(728): DifferenceEngine->generateContentDiffBody()
#12 /var/www/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/specials/SpecialMobileDiff.php(241): DifferenceEngine->getDiffBody()
#13 /var/www/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/specials/SpecialMobileDiff.php(135): SpecialMobileDiff->showDiff()
#14 /var/www/techotopia/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/specials/MobileSpecialPage.php(53): SpecialMobileDiff->executeWhenAvailable()
#15 /var/www/techotopia/includes/specialpage/SpecialPage.php(384): MobileSpecialPage->execute()
#16 /var/www/techotopia/includes/specialpage/SpecialPageFactory.php(553): SpecialPage->run()
#17 /var/www/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(281): SpecialPageFactory::executePath()
#18 /var/www/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(714): MediaWiki->performRequest()
#19 /var/www/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(508): MediaWiki->main()
#20 /var/www/techotopia/index.php(41): MediaWiki->run()
#21 {main}