I've followed along with the examples in chapter 6 (hosting powershell in applications) and have a working app. I have a problem when trying to get the output of a pipeline like "dir | format-table". All of the examples show simply calling the ToString() method on each of the PSObjects in the collection returned (which works if you leave the format-table off), but the objects returned by the format-table cmdlet are apparently internal not-really-documented (couldn't find them in MSDN, for example) and don't implement anything for ToString() other than outputing the typename.

For example, I get the following:
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.Form atStartData
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.Grou pStartData
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.Form atEntryData
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.Form atEntryData
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.Form atEntryData
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.Form atEntryData
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.Grou pEndData
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.Internal.Format.Form atEndData

I have grabbed these objects in a real powershell session (not in my app) and tried to figure out how to get anything resembling output out of them to no avail. Can you point me somewhere helpful?

Format-Table is meant to be the last cmdlet used in a pipeline. Once you use Format-Table, you're basically stuck with the objects that are outputted, and you cannnot do any further manipulation of the objects that are returned.

Maybe you can share more details on what you're trying to accomplish?

I too have the same problem. I am trying to display the objects returned from my cmdlet to the console. But inside the host I donot have any idea how to handle these formated table data objects which appear to be internal to the PS host.

Would be great if someone can clarify

Thanks

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