Running an EXE file using PowerShell from a directory with spaces in it

Question

I\'m trying to run MSTest.exe from C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\\Common7\\IDE. What\'s more, I\'m taking all of the assemblies in my cu

Answer 1

I would recommend you to use an array of parameters and the operator &. See the examples in my answer in here: Executing a Command stored in a Variable from Powershell

In this case the code should be something like this:

$MSTestCall = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe"
$MSTestArguments = @('/resultsFile:out.trx', '/testsettings:C:\someDirectory\local64.testsettings')

foreach($file in Get-ChildItem $CurrentDirectory)  
{ 
    if($file.name -match "\S+test\S?.dll$" ) 
    { 
        $MSTestArguments += "/TestContainer:" + $file
    } 
} 

& $MSTestCall $MSTestArguments

Answer 2

Does this work?

$MSTestCall = @'"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe"'@