Hi all, i've heard about MMC SnapIns that invoke powershell commands, for example The Exchange 2007 Management Console.
I can find documentation about creating Powershell SnapIns, and about creating MMC SnapIns,
however i can't find any info about combining these two techniques.
Now i could just start invoking powershell and do some fiddling to get the results into MMC ResultRecords manually and display them from there, but i suspect there might be better ways to expose the PSObjects to MMC...

Do you know of examples and/or documentation about creating MMC SnapIns that invoke Powershell CmdLets?
Is this something that will be addressed in Powershell vServicePack or vNext ?
Is there preliminary documentation available ? (i have access to Powershell on MS Connect)

I would appreciate some guidance from the Powershell team on this, the "PowerShell Manifesto' for example gave me ideas about the future of powershell, but no timeframe for delivery of the MMC integration.



regards

Joris van Lier

>I can find documentation about creating Powershell SnapIns, and about
>creating MMC SnapIns,
>however i can't find any info about combining these two techniques.

I'll be attending a Microsoft workshop in mid-April that will likely cover
this.

I'll report back if I'm not under an NDA.

Might want to check out www.dinnernow.net to see some source code on how
they interact with MMC 3.0. It's not via cmdlets from what I understand
though.

Marco

I went to an ISV conference that covered this last year. the bad news
its late and i'd have to look up a few things, so i'm not going to
tell you how. the good news is its simple and you can get something up
and running in 15 to 30 minutes

but first have you tried hosting powershell at all.. i would recommend
doing that in a windows form first..
just do something like through down a button and datagrid, use a
runspace invoker to run "get-process" and bind the returned collection
to the datagrid.. or loop trhoguh and add to a dataset as per your
preference. Once you do that, its not hard to start a MMC3.0 project.

klumsy@xtra.co.nz wrote:
> I went to an ISV conference that covered this last year. the bad news
> its late and i'd have to look up a few things, so i'm not going to
> tell you how. the good news is its simple and you can get something up
> and running in 15 to 30 minutes
>
> but first have you tried hosting powershell at all.. i would recommend
> doing that in a windows form first..
> just do something like through down a button and datagrid, use a
> runspace invoker to run "get-process" and bind the returned collection
> to the datagrid.. or loop trhoguh and add to a dataset as per your
> preference. Once you do that, its not hard to start a MMC3.0 project.

Tank you so much , that was the missing piece, i have to host powershell,
not invoke it.
I'll go practice my hosting first then...

Joris

p.s. I appreciate you not laying it out for me, just giving a pointer to set me on the right track, so i get to have my "AHA Erlebnis"

<klumsy@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
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>I went to an ISV conference that covered this last year. the bad news
> its late and i'd have to look up a few things, so i'm not going to
> tell you how. the good news is its simple and you can get something up
> and running in 15 to 30 minutes

Would be cool to see stuff like this on powershelllive.com...

Marco