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The term 'Get-WBSummary' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet [duplicate]

I have below command and it returns me null object . When I run the command separately in PowerShell window I get the right result. Below is my PowerShell method which is calling the command and the also the PowerShell command which I have defined. I am basically looking to return a string value. Please let me know what wrong am I doing?
C# method:
public string RunScript( string contentScript, Dictionary<string, EntityProperty> parameters)
{
List<string> parameterList = new List<string>();
foreach( var item in parameters )
{
parameterList.Add( item.Value.ToString() );
}
using( PowerShell ps = PowerShell.Create() )
{
ps.AddScript( contentScript );
// in ContentScript I get "Get-RowAndPartitionKey" on debugging
ps.AddParameters( parameterList );//I get list of strings
IAsyncResult async = ps.BeginInvoke();
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
foreach( PSObject result in ps.EndInvoke( async ) )
// here i get result empty in ps.EndInvoke(async)
{
stringBuilder.AppendLine( result.ToString() );
}
return stringBuilder.ToString();
}
}
}
My Powershell GetRowAndPartitionKey cmdlet definition, which the code above is trying to call:
public abstract class GetRowAndPartitionKey : PSCmdlet
{
[Parameter]
public List<string> Properties { get; set; } = new List<string>();
}
[Cmdlet( VerbsCommon.Get, "RowAndPartitionKey" )]
public class GetRowAndPartitionKeyCmd : GetRowAndPartitionKey
{
protected override void ProcessRecord()
{
string rowKey = string.Join( "_", Properties );
string pKey = string.Empty;
WriteObject( new
{
RowKey = rowKey,
PartitionKey = pKey
} );
}
}
}

When using the PowerShell SDK, if you want to pass parameters to a single command with .AddParameter() / .AddParameters() / AddArgument(), use .AddCommand(), not .AddScript()
.AddScript() is for passing arbitrary pieces of PowerShell code that is executed as a script block to which the parameters added with .AddParameters() are passed.
That is, your invocation is equivalent to & { Get-RowAndPartitionKey } <your-parameters>, and as you can see, your Get-RowAndPartitionKey command therefore doesn't receive the parameter values.
See this answer or more information.
Note: As a prerequisite for calling your custom Get-RowAndPartitionKey cmdlet, you may have to explicitly import the module (DLL) that contains it, which you can do:
either: with a separate, synchronous Import-Module call executed beforehand (for simplicity, I'm using .AddArgument() here, with passes an argument positionally, which binds to the -Name parameter (which also accepts paths)):
ps.AddCommand("Import-Module").AddArgument(#"<your-module-path-here>").Invoke();
or: as part of a single (in this case asynchronous) invocation - note the required .AddStatement() call to separate the two commands:
IAsyncResult async =
ps.AddCommand("Import-Module").AddArgument(#"<your-module-path-here>")
.AddStatement()
.AddCommand("GetRowAndPartitionKey").AddParameter("Properties", parameterList)
.BeginInvoke();
"<your-module-path-here>" refers to the full file-system path of the module that contains the Get-RowAndPartitionKey cmdlet; depending on how that module is implemented, it is either a path to the module's directory, its .psd1 module manifest, or to its .dll, if it is a stand-alone assembly.
Alternative import method, using the PowerShell SDK's dedicated .ImportPSModule() method:
This method obviates the need for an in-session Import-Module call, but requires extra setup:
Create a default session state.
Call .ImportPSModule() on it to import the module.
Pass this session state to PowerShell.Create()
var iss = InitialSessionState.CreateDefault();
iss.ImportPSModule(new string[] { #"<your-module-path-here>" });
var ps = PowerShell.Create(iss);
// Now the PowerShell commands submitted to the `ps` instance
// will see the module's exported commands.
Caveat: A PowerShell instance reflects its initial session state in .Runspace.InitialSessionState, but as a conceptually read-only property; the tricky part is that it is technically still modifiable, so that mistaken attempts to modify it are quietly ignored rather than resulting in exceptions.
To troubleshoot these calls:
Check ps.HadErrors after .Invoke() / .EndInvoke() to see if the PowerShell commands reported any (non-terminating) errors.
Enumerate ps.Streams.Errors to inspect the specific errors that occurred.
See this answer to a follow-up question for self-contained sample code that demonstrates these techniques.

COM+ activation on a remote server with partitions in C#

I want to access partitioned COM+ applications on a remote server.
I have tried this:
using COMAdmin
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
_serverName = myRemoteServer;
_partionName = myPartionName;
_message = myMessage;
ICOMAdminCatalog2 catalog = new COMAdminCatalog();
catalog.Connect(_serverName);
string moniker = string.Empty;
string MsgInClassId = "E3BD1489-30DD-4380-856A-12B959502BFD";
//we are using partitions
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(_partitionName))
{
COMAdminCatalogCollection partitions = catalog.GetCollection("Partitions");
partitions.Populate();
string partitionId = string.Empty;
foreach (ICatalogObject item in partitions)
{
if (item.Name == _partitionName)
{
partitionId = item.Key;
break;
}
}
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(partitionId) )
{
moniker = $"partition:{partitionId}/new:{new Guid(MsgInClassId)}";
try
{
var M = (IMsgInManager)Marshal.BindToMoniker(moniker);
M.AddMsg(_message);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new Exception($"We can not use: {_partitionName} with Id {partitionId}. {ex.ToString()}");
}
}
else
{
throw;
}
}
else
//we don't have partitions and this will work
{
Type T = Type.GetTypeFromCLSID(new Guid(MsgInClassId), _serverName, true);
var M = (IMsgInManager)Activator.CreateInstance(T);
M.AddMsg(_message);
}
}
So when we are local on the (remote) machine, partitions are working with the moniker and Marshal.BindToMoniker.
But when I try do the same remotely from my machine, I get an error from
Marshal.BindToMoniker that Partitons is not enabled. Because on my machine partitions is not enabled.
Message = "COM+ partitions are currently disabled. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80110824)"
How can I use Marshal.BindToMoniker to run on the remote server.
Is it something I can add to the moniker string i.e.
moniker = $"server:_server/partition:{partitionId}/new:{new Guid(MsgInClassId)}"
My questions is very simular to this:
COM+ object activation in a different partition

tl;dr
According to MS documentation there is a way to do this by setting the pServerInfo in BIND_OPTS2 structure for binding the moniker. Unfortunately this is not working for the COM class moniker.
see:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms694513(v=vs.85).aspx
where it says for *pServerInfo:
COM's new class moniker does not currently honor the pServerInfo flag.
But maybe just try your scenario and at some future time it might be supported (or already is and documentation is wrong).
also see:
http://thrysoee.dk/InsideCOM+/ch11c.htm
where it also says in the footnote it does not work for class moniker: http://thrysoee.dk/InsideCOM+/footnotes.htm#CH1104
Theory and suggested solution if it was supported in c#
Disclaimer: I couldn't test the code as I don't have a test setup. This is off the top of my head. A bit pseudo code.
To do this you would have to code the COM/Moniker calls yourself. For this you could look at the source of microsofts implementation as a starting point.
There BindToMoniker is implemented like:
public static Object BindToMoniker(String monikerName)
{
Object obj = null;
IBindCtx bindctx = null;
CreateBindCtx(0, out bindctx);
UInt32 cbEaten;
IMoniker pmoniker = null;
MkParseDisplayName(bindctx, monikerName, out cbEaten, out pmoniker);
BindMoniker(pmoniker, 0, ref IID_IUnknown, out obj);
return obj;
}
CreateBindCtx, MkParseDisplayName and BindMoniker are OLE32.dll functions.
IBindCtx has methods to change the binding context. For this you call IBindCtx.GetBindContext(out BIND_OPTS2) and change the settings to what you need. Then set the new binding context with IBindCtx.SetBindContext(BIND_OPTS2). So essentially your own version of code would look something like this (pseudo code):
public static Object BindToMoniker(String monikerName)
{
Object obj = null;
IBindCtx bindctx = null;
CreateBindCtx(0, out bindctx);
BIND_OPTS2 bindOpts;
bindOpts.cbStruct = Marshal.SizeOf(BIND_OPTS2);
bindctx.GetBindOptions(ref bindOpts);
// Make your settings that you need. For example:
bindOpts.dwClassContext = CLSCTX_REMOTE_SERVER;
// Anything else ?
bindOpts.pServerInfo = new COSERVERINFO{pwszName = "serverName"};
bindctx.SetBindOptions(ref bindOpts);
UInt32 cbEaten;
IMoniker pmoniker = null;
MkParseDisplayName(bindctx, monikerName, out cbEaten, out pmoniker);
BindMoniker(pmoniker, 0, ref IID_IUnknown, out obj);
return obj;
}
As said, unfortunately this code is not possible to write in C# out of the box. Even the OLE32.dll method declarations CreateBindCtx, MkParseDisplayName and BindMoniker are privately declared in Marshal.cs so you will have to declare them in your project again.
But we are lucky with the IBindCtx declaration using a BIND_OPTS2 and the BIND_OPTS2 structure definition itself. They are declared in Microsoft.VisualStudio.OLE.Interop (interesting declarations in this namespace anyway). So you can try using them because inside the Marshal object and marshal.cs only the BIND_OPTS structure is used. I don't know if this is part of the framework and redistributable (I doubt it) but for testing this should be good enough. If it works these things can be declared again in your own solution.
Some Info on the used functions:
BindMoniker
CreateBindCtx
MkParseDisplayName
BIND_OPTS2

The remote COM needs to be accessed by Queue or DCOM. You need to export the application proxy on the server when accessing by DCOM. And install the proxy in the client PC.
The COM activation type must be configured as "Server Application" to export application proxy.
After installing application proxy, the client can directly call
moniker = $"new:{new Guid(MsgInClassId)}";
try
{
var M = Marshal.BindToMoniker(moniker);
}
For the partition, it's designed to show each user with own application set. If the current partition is associated to the user, the partition needs not to be written in codes.

Coldfusion Accessing a .net objects parent methods

For some reason Coldfusion is having an issue with accessing the parent methods of one of the objects it creates.
consider this code:
<cfscript>
variables.sHTML = '<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>Hello <strong>World</strong></p></body></html>';
try{
variables.sAltChunkID = "altChunk1";
variables.sExportDirectory = application.sSecureExportPath&'int'&'\word\';
variables.sDLLPath = 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Open XML SDK\V2.0\lib\DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll';
variables.sFileName = "testI.docx";
variables.sFileToWrite = variables.sExportDirectory&'#variables.sFileName#';
variables.enumWordProcessingDocumentType = createObject("dotnet","DocumentFormat.OpenXml.WordprocessingDocumentType","#variables.sDLLPath#").init().Document;
variables.oDocument = createObject("dotnet","DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging.WordprocessingDocument","#variables.sDLLPath#").Create(variables.sFileToWrite,variables.enumWordProcessingDocumentType);
variables.oMainDocument = variables.oDocument.AddMainDocumentPart();
variables.oEncoding = createObject("dotnet","System.Text.UTF8Encoding").init();
//variables.oMemoryStream = createObject("dotnet","System.IO.MemoryStream").init(variables.oEncoding.GetBytes(variables.sHTML));
variables.enumAltChunk = createObject("dotnet","DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Packaging.AlternativeFormatImportPartType","#variables.sDLLPath#").html;
variables.oFormatImportPart = variables.oMainDocument.AddAlternativeFormatImportPart(variables.enumAltChunk,variables.sAltChunkID);
writeDump(variables.oFormatImportPart);
variables.oFormatImportPart.FeedData(createObject("dotnet","System.IO.MemoryStream").init(variables.oEncoding.GetBytes(variables.sHTML)));
} catch(Any e) {
writeDump(e);
}
</cfscript>
variables.oFormatImportPart has a parent method of FeedData(System.IO.Stream), however when I get to that line, Coldfusion hits me with an exception of:
Either there are no methods with the specified method name and argument types or the FeedData method is overloaded with argument types that ColdFusion cannot decipher reliably. ColdFusion found 0 methods that match the provided arguments. If this is a Java object and you verified that the method exists, use the javacast function to reduce ambiguity.
But as you can see from my Dump, FeedData does indeed exist as a method:

FeedData is overloaded and expecting a Stream object. You are currently sending it an ambiguous object as it has not be cast to the proper type after your createObject call.

devart dc.ExecuteQuery returns Object not set to an instance of an object

I've recently upgraded to devart 7.5 and a few functions are not working properly. Specifically, I've got a function that returns an IEnumerable:
protected IEnumerable<BudgetTotals> getTotals(decimal groupId, decimal budgetId)
{
using (SsinpatDataContext dc = new SsinpatDataContext())
{
object[] ids = new object[2] { groupId, budgetId };
string sqlStr = "..."
var query = dc.ExecuteQuery<BudgetTotals>(sqlStr, ids);
return query;
}
}
To this point it all works fine, and the return variable "query" holds the correct values.
The problem is that when calling getTotals the object is not set:
...
var query = getTotals(grpId,bdgId);
foreach(BudgetTotals bt in query)
{
...
}
Now, when control reaches "in" in the foreach instruction an exception is thrown with the message "Object not set to an instance of an object", which is puzzling me because
a) it was working fine and
b) the object is set within the getTotals funcion.
I could work things around by changing the return value from IEnumerable to BudgetTotals[], and returning query.ToArray. I tried it and it works. The main issue here is all the other functions that return an IEnumerable.
Before overhauling the application, I'd like to understand why or what is causing this difference in behaviour from devart 6.3 to 7.5.
Thanks in advance

When performing the ExecuteQuery method in the 'getTotals' function, an entity reader for obtaining the data is opened for the current DataContext object (dc). After exiting the 'using' block in the "getTotals" function, the DataContext object (dc) is disposed and all its entity readers are closed. Thus, when you trying to read the data in the foreach statement, the reader is already closed, and the exception occurs (we have changed the text of the exception, now it will be more informative).
JIC: In older version there could be some issues with closing entity readers.

Object of type 'customObject' cannot be converted to type 'customObject'

I receive the following error when I invoke a custom object
"Object of type 'customObject' cannot be converted to type 'customObject'."
Following is the scenario when I am get this error:
I invoke a method in a dll dynamically.
Load an assembly
CreateInstance....
When calling MethodInfo.Invoke() passing int, string as a parameter for my method works fine => No exceptions are thrown.
But if I try and pass one of my own custom class objects as a parameter, then I get an ArgumentException exception, and it is not either an ArgumentOutOfRangeException or ArgumentNullException.
"Object of type 'customObject' cannot be converted to type 'customObject'."
I am doing this in a web application.
The class file containing the method is in a different project. Also the custom object is a separate class in the same file.
There is no such thing called a static assembly in my code. I am trying to invoke a webmethod dynamically. this webmethod is having the customObject type as an input parameter. So when i invoke the webmethod i am dynamically creating the proxy assembly and all. From the same assembly i am trying to create an instance of the cusotm object assinging the values to its properties and then passing this object as a parameter and invoking the method. everything is dynamic and nothing is created static.. :(
add reference is not used.
Following is a sample code i tried to create it
public static object CallWebService(string webServiceAsmxUrl, string serviceName, string methodName, object[] args)
{
System.Net.WebClient client = new System.Net.WebClient();
//-Connect To the web service
using (System.IO.Stream stream = client.OpenRead(webServiceAsmxUrl + "?wsdl"))
{
//--Now read the WSDL file describing a service.
ServiceDescription description = ServiceDescription.Read(stream);
///// LOAD THE DOM /////////
//--Initialize a service description importer.
ServiceDescriptionImporter importer = new ServiceDescriptionImporter();
importer.ProtocolName = "Soap12"; // Use SOAP 1.2.
importer.AddServiceDescription(description, null, null);
//--Generate a proxy client. importer.Style = ServiceDescriptionImportStyle.Client;
//--Generate properties to represent primitive values.
importer.CodeGenerationOptions = System.Xml.Serialization.CodeGenerationOptions.GenerateProperties;
//--Initialize a Code-DOM tree into which we will import the service.
CodeNamespace nmspace = new CodeNamespace();
CodeCompileUnit unit1 = new CodeCompileUnit();
unit1.Namespaces.Add(nmspace);
//--Import the service into the Code-DOM tree. This creates proxy code
//--that uses the service.
ServiceDescriptionImportWarnings warning = importer.Import(nmspace, unit1);
if (warning == 0) //--If zero then we are good to go
{
//--Generate the proxy code
CodeDomProvider provider1 = CodeDomProvider.CreateProvider("CSharp");
//--Compile the assembly proxy with the appropriate references
string[] assemblyReferences = new string[5] { "System.dll", "System.Web.Services.dll", "System.Web.dll", "System.Xml.dll", "System.Data.dll" };
CompilerParameters parms = new CompilerParameters(assemblyReferences);
CompilerResults results = provider1.CompileAssemblyFromDom(parms, unit1);
//-Check For Errors
if (results.Errors.Count > 0)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (CompilerError oops in results.Errors)
{
sb.AppendLine("========Compiler error============");
sb.AppendLine(oops.ErrorText);
}
throw new System.ApplicationException("Compile Error Occured calling webservice. " + sb.ToString());
}
//--Finally, Invoke the web service method
Type foundType = null;
Type[] types = results.CompiledAssembly.GetTypes();
foreach (Type type in types)
{
if (type.BaseType == typeof(System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol))
{
Console.WriteLine(type.ToString());
foundType = type;
}
}
object wsvcClass = results.CompiledAssembly.CreateInstance(foundType.ToString());
MethodInfo mi = wsvcClass.GetType().GetMethod(methodName);
return mi.Invoke(wsvcClass, args);
}
else
{
return null;
}
}
}
I can't find anything static in what I do.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Phani Kumar PV

Have you looked at what the proxy class looks like that gets generated? You don't need the proxy to call a web service. Just create a class that inherits from SoapHttpClientProtocol and call Invoke(methodName, params).
You are making this SO much more complicated than you need to. Honestly.
EDIT
If you create a class like this:
public class SoapClient : SoapHttpClientProtocol
{
public SoapClient()
{
}
public object[] Invoke(string method, object[] args)
{
return base.Invoke(method, args);
}
}
and call it like this:
SoapClient soapClient = new SoapClient();
soapClient.Url = webServiceAsmxUrl;
soapClient.Invoke(methodName, args);
I think you will see that it has the exact same results as what you are doing.

Let me try to explain the most probable reason for the problem to come in my approach.
When I invoked a method in the assembly called as "methodname" in the webservice I am trying to pass the parameters required for that as args[] to the function "CallWebService"
This args[] when passed will be successfully working when I try to pass a normal parameters like primitive types including string.
But this is what I did when I tried to pass a custom object as a parameter.
Three things that are done in this.
create an object of that type outside the CallWebService function (using reflection). when I did that way what happens is an instance of the customobject created with a temporary dll name internally.
once I set the set the properties of the object and send it across to the CallWebService function as an object in the args array.
I tired to create an instance of the webservice by creating the dynamic dll.
object wsvcClass = results.CompiledAssembly.CreateInstance(foundType.ToString());
When I finally tried to invoke the method with the instance of the dynamic assembly created
I tried to pass the customobject that is created at step 1,2 via args property.
at the time of invocation the CLR tries to see if the customobject that is passed as input and the method that is being invoked are from the same DLL.
which is obviously not from the way the implementation is done.
So following is the approach that should be used to overcome the problem
I need to create the custom object assembly with the same assembly that I used to the create the webservice instance..
I implemented this approach completely and it worked out fine
MethodInfo m = type.GetMethod(methodName);
ParameterInfo[] pm = m.GetParameters();
object ob;
object[] y = new object[1];
foreach (ParameterInfo paraminfo in pm)
{
ob = this.webServiceAssembly.CreateInstance(paraminfo.ParameterType.Name);
//Some Junk Logic to get the set the values to the properties of the custom Object
foreach (PropertyInfo propera in ob.GetType().GetProperties())
{
if (propera.Name == "AppGroupid")
{
propera.SetValue(ob, "SQL2005Tools", null);
}
if (propera.Name == "Appid")
{
propera.SetValue(ob, "%", null);
}
}
y[0] = ob;
}

this can occur when the version of a dll you have referenced in your reflected code is different from the version of that dll in your compiled code.

This is an old thread, but I just had a similar problem. I looked on here, this one popped up, but I saw no useful solutions.
The OP's error was this: Object of type 'customObject' cannot be converted to type 'customObject'.
My very similar error was this: Object of type 'System.String' cannot be converted to type 'System.Windows.Forms.AccessibleRole'.
Here is how I solved my problem:
I performed a Find and Replace (use CRTL+SHIFT+F to bring the dialog box up) search in the Current Project for the term AccessibleRole.
Within one of the Form's Designer's was a place where I was assigning an AccessibleRole value to a String variable using ToString().
I fixed this, and my problem went away.
I hope this provides help to others.