Has anyone had any success using the ViewX Automation interface with Powershell 5.1?

[AdamWoodlandToo]

Hi,

I can open, close and manipulate mimics using C# however for easy of code management (and lack of a dev machine in prod environment!) I would prefer to use Powershell. Has anyone had any luck using Powershell with the ViewX automation interface? My attempts to port the code have been less than successful

I had to use the DLL extracted from somewhere into the Visual Studio obj folder and reference that instead of the DLLs in the install folder as they gave errors, i.e.

Add-Type -path ".\Interop.ViewX.dll"

And then

$vx = New-Object -COMObject "Serck.ViewXApplication" # Works fine

But my attempts to use .Mimics.OpenFromServer in Powershell fails based on getting the parameters right, not even getting it to compile, e.g. various attempts such as:

$m = $vx.Mimics.OpenFromServer -ReadOnly $False -Server $systemname -Path "Some.Mimic"

or

$m = $vx.Mimics.OpenFromServer $False $systemname "Some.Mimic"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5544844/how-to-call-a-complex-com-method-from-powershell had a suggestion that I couldn't get to work either (runs, errors calling the invoke with 8 parameters)

Attaching the basic code with the SO function included, thoughts welcome!

[sbeadle · Accepted solution]

Looks like no-one has Adam!

(Replying because our system needs it!)

[AdamWoodlandToo]

I haven't got anything to work since my post, maybe future me or someone else will find this post and have a solution!