re: PowerShell PowerPack Download

mbourgon — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:46:09 GMT

Installing the powershellpack and trying to do a sample Hello World was a beating. Now that I have it up I'll see what I can get set up for a frontend, but to get there was (word of the day) Sisyphean.

* download Powershell

* download PowerShellPack

* install both

* start Powershell

* Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted (so I can run scripts)

* Import-Module PowerShellPack (needs to be done each time)

* Hit ctrl+c because it's going to ask me once per script, and there are about 50. And, each time I run powershell.

* Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass (hello, usefulness, goodbye protection. Grrrr)

* Import-Module PowerShellPack

* Import-Module WPK

* New-Label "Hello, World" -Show

* get odd error: Exception calling ".ctor" with "0" argument(s): "The calling thread must be STA, because many UI components require this."

* read blog

* change shortcut to Powershell to add -STA

* restart Powershell

* Import-Module PowerShellPack

* Import-Module WPK

* New-Label "Hello, World" -Show