Get Powershell command's output when invoked through code

Question

I have written a piece of code (in C#) to execute a Powershell script (specifically Azure PowerShell) using System.Management.Automation. The powershell script

Answer 1

Unless you're targeting PowerShell 1.0, there's no need to set up your runspace and pipeline manually, create an instance of the PowerShell class instead:

PowerShell psinstance = PowerShell.Create();
psinstance.AddScript(scriptPath);
var results = psinstance.Invoke();

Way simpler.

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Now, the PowerShell class exposes the various non-standard output streams (Verbose, Debug, Error etc.) - including the Progress Stream - via the Streams property so you can subscribe to it, like so:

psinstance.Streams.Progress.DataAdded += myProgressEventHandler;

And then in your event handler:

static void myProgressEventHandler(object sender, DataAddedEventArgs e)
{
    ProgressRecord newRecord = ((PSDataCollection<ProgressRecord>)sender)[e.Index];
    if (newRecord.PercentComplete != -1)
    {
        Console.Clear();
        Console.WriteLine("Progress updated: {0}", newRecord.PercentComplete);
    }
}

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As an example, here is that event handler shown above in action, while running a sample script that writes progress information (sample script posted below) in a simple console application:

Test-Progress.ps1

function Test-Progress
{
    param()

    Write-Progress -Activity 'Testing progress' -Status 'Starting' -PercentComplete 0
    Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 600
    1..10 |ForEach-Object{
        Write-Progress -Activity "Testing progress" -Status 'Progressing' -PercentComplete $(5 + 6.87 * $_)
        Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 400
    }
    Write-Progress -Activity 'Testing progress' -Status 'Ending' -PercentComplete 99
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
    Write-Progress -Activity 'Testing progress' -Status 'Done' -Completed
}

Test-Progress