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Using Windows Forms code in PowerISE causes the ISE to crash
I was testing a colleague's small script which lists VM snapshots from our vCenters, and it uses a Windows Form to get the vCenter name, username & password. It then logs into the vCenter and extracts the required info.
In a PowerShell command line, it works perfectly. In the ISE, the code runs fine until it completes then after about 10 seconds, the ISE freezes. I tried the same code on other Windows servers in our environment and the same happened.
To test if it was code related or not, I have a script which Get-Credential to ask the user for logon details so I modified the code to create a form with the username & password details using labels & textboxes with an OK button. As soon as I ran the code, it froze the ISE. Again if run from the PowerShell command line, works fine.
I tried adding the following to the scripts which did not help:
Add-Type -AssemblyName Microsoft.VisualBasic,
PresentationCore,
PresentationFramework,
System.Drawing,
System.Windows.Forms,
WindowsBase,
WindowsFormsIntegration
[System.Windows.Forms.Application]::EnableVisualStyles()
I'm using $Form.Dispose()
Linked references:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1367945-powershell-ise-hanging-when-using-forms
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30808084/using-windows-forms-locks-up-powershell-ise-minutes-after-script-has-terminated
Does anyone know of any fixes for this situation?
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Any update ?
- When using VSCode, do you still have the problem or not? (Stopped using ISE years ago)