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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~~ Windows PowerShell. In particular the issue of launching and interacting with applications and working with the Windows desktop from ~~whithin~~ PowerShell will be covered.

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) via Windows PowerShell. In particular the issue of launching and interacting with applications and working with the Windows desktop from within PowerShell will be covered.

== Listing Available COM Objects ==

Exception encountered, of type "Error"
[82a5c8b8] /index.php?diff=next&oldid=6581&title=Using_COM_with_Windows_PowerShell_1.0 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/includes/diff/TableDiffFormatter.php(194): WordLevelDiff->__construct()
#7 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DiffFormatter.php(140): TableDiffFormatter->changed()
#8 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DiffFormatter.php(82): DiffFormatter->block()
#9 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DifferenceEngine.php(881): DiffFormatter->format()
#10 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DifferenceEngine.php(797): DifferenceEngine->generateTextDiffBody()
#11 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DifferenceEngine.php(728): DifferenceEngine->generateContentDiffBody()
#12 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DifferenceEngine.php(662): DifferenceEngine->getDiffBody()
#13 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DifferenceEngine.php(632): DifferenceEngine->getDiff()
#14 /var/www/techotopia/includes/diff/DifferenceEngine.php(453): DifferenceEngine->showDiff()
#15 /var/www/techotopia/includes/page/Article.php(797): DifferenceEngine->showDiffPage()
#16 /var/www/techotopia/includes/page/Article.php(508): Article->showDiffPage()
#17 /var/www/techotopia/includes/actions/ViewAction.php(44): Article->view()
#18 /var/www/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(490): ViewAction->show()
#19 /var/www/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(287): MediaWiki->performAction()
#20 /var/www/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(714): MediaWiki->performRequest()
#21 /var/www/techotopia/includes/MediaWiki.php(508): MediaWiki->main()
#22 /var/www/techotopia/index.php(41): MediaWiki->run()
#23 {main}