Vista - InternetExplorer.Application COM object.

I'm new to COM development.

new-variable html
$a = ([xml](new-object
net.webclient).downloadstring("http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/rss.aspx")).rss.channel.item
$oIE = new-object -COM InternetExplorer.Application
$oIE.navigate2(about:blank)
$oIE.statusbar=$True
$oIE.addressbar=$False
$oIE.menubar=$False
$oIE.toolbar=$False
$b = $a | select $link,title,pubdate | convertto-html | %
{$_.replace("&lt;","<").replace("&gt;",">")}
$oIE.document.body.insertAdjacentHTML
$oIE.visible=$True

I'm trying to spawn an IE window whenever powershell starts. This windows
will display the above rss feeds as links. The script isn't crashing,
however the windows which spawns contains no data. I'm using IE 7 and
Powershell v1.

Hi Braden,

Try this, if you want it to be poped up each time PowerShell loads, wrap
it in a function, put it in your profile
and add a call to the function:


### $profile ###

function get-rss{
$a = ([xml](new-object net.webclient).downloadstring("http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/rss.aspx")).rss.channel.item
$oIE = new-object -com internetExplorer.application
$oIE.navigate2("about:blank")
$oIE.statusbar=$true
$oIE.addressbar=$false
$oIE.menubar=$false
$oIE.toolbar=$false
$link = @{n="Title";e={"<a href='$($_.link)'>$($_.title)</a>"}}
$b = $a | select $link,pubdate | convertto-html | foreach {$_.replace("&lt;","<").replace("&gt;",">")}
$oIE.document.body.innerHTML = $b
$oIE.visible=$true
}

get-rss

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EUREKA!
I never was able to figure that out. Ironically, I upgraded to IE8 Beta 1
and started running it in IE7 compatibility mode before I got my IE scripts
(PowerShell and WSH) working again. It now works well enough - I was able to
export a few hundred messages from a Sakai web system for someone via
PowerShell-based IE automation.