I ran into the same problem as you on vista 32bit, so did it on a windows 2003 sp2 server.

Cheers,
James

$DisplayFile_Window.Text = Get-Content $ifile | Out-String

Here is my 1st attempt at creating a winform, which just does a get-content’s on a selected file:

#Generated Form Function
function GenerateForm {
########################################################################
# Code Generated By: SAPIEN Technologies PrimalForms v1.0.1.0
# Generated On: 25/01/2009 14:50
# Generated By: administrator
########################################################################

#region Import the Assembles
[reflection.assembly]::loadwithpartialname(“System.Windows.Forms”) | Out-Null
[reflection.assembly]::loadwithpartialname(“System.Drawing”) | Out-Null
#endregion

#region Generated Form Objects
$form1 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
$DisplayFile_Window = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox
$SelectFile_Window = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox
$SelectFile = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$groupBox1 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.GroupBox
$Displayfile = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$openFileDialog1 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.OpenFileDialog
#endregion Generated Form Objects

#———————————————-
#Generated Event Script Blocks
#———————————————-
#Provide Custom Code for events specified in PrimalForms.
$EnteredText=
{
$ifile = $SelectFile_Window.Text
}

$Displayfile_OnClick=
{
If(!$ifile -eq $False)
{
$iFileGC = Get-content $ifile
$iFileContents = [string]::join([environment]::NewLine,$iFileGC)
$DisplayFile_Window.Text = $iFileContents
}
Else {$DisplayFile_Window.Text = “No file selected”}

}

$SelectFile_OnClick=
{
$openFileDialog1.ShowDialog()
$ifile = $openFileDialog1.FileName
$SelectFile_Window.Text = $ifile
}

#———————————————-
#region Generated Form Code
$form1.Text = ‘My 1st Primal Form’
$form1.Name = ‘form1′
$form1.DataBindings.DefaultDataSourceUpdateMode = 0
$System_Drawing_Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size
$System_Drawing_Size.Height = 299
$System_Drawing_Size.Width = 436
$form1.ClientSize = $System_Drawing_Size

$DisplayFile_Window.WordWrap = $False
$DisplayFile_Window.Name = ‘DisplayFile_Window’
$DisplayFile_Window.Text = ”
$DisplayFile_Window.DataBindings.DefaultDataSourceUpdateMode = 0
$System_Drawing_Point = New-Object System.Drawing.Point
$System_Drawing_Point.X = 10
$System_Drawing_Point.Y = 64
$DisplayFile_Window.Location = $System_Drawing_Point
$DisplayFile_Window.ReadOnly = $True
$System_Drawing_Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size
$System_Drawing_Size.Height = 223
$System_Drawing_Size.Width = 409
$DisplayFile_Window.Size = $System_Drawing_Size
$DisplayFile_Window.TabIndex = 3

$form1.Controls.Add($DisplayFile_Window)

$SelectFile_Window.Multiline = $False
$SelectFile_Window.WordWrap = $False
$SelectFile_Window.Name = ‘SelectFile_Window’
$SelectFile_Window.Text = ”
$SelectFile_Window.DataBindings.DefaultDataSourceUpdateMode = 0
$System_Drawing_Point = New-Object System.Drawing.Point
$System_Drawing_Point.X = 12
$System_Drawing_Point.Y = 35
$SelectFile_Window.Location = $System_Drawing_Point
$SelectFile_Window.EnableAutoDragDrop = $True
$System_Drawing_Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size
$System_Drawing_Size.Height = 23
$System_Drawing_Size.Width = 293
$SelectFile_Window.Size = $System_Drawing_Size
$SelectFile_Window.TabIndex = 1
$SelectFile_Window.add_TextChanged($EnteredText)

$form1.Controls.Add($SelectFile_Window)

$SelectFile.TabIndex = 0
$System_Drawing_Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size
$System_Drawing_Size.Height = 23
$System_Drawing_Size.Width = 27
$SelectFile.Size = $System_Drawing_Size
$SelectFile.Name = ‘SelectFile’
$SelectFile.UseVisualStyleBackColor = $True

$SelectFile.Text = ‘…’
$System_Drawing_Point = New-Object System.Drawing.Point
$System_Drawing_Point.X = 311
$System_Drawing_Point.Y = 34
$SelectFile.Location = $System_Drawing_Point

$SelectFile.DataBindings.DefaultDataSourceUpdateMode = 0
$SelectFile.add_Click($SelectFile_OnClick)

$form1.Controls.Add($SelectFile)

$groupBox1.Name = ‘groupBox1′

$groupBox1.Text = ‘Select file to view’
$System_Drawing_Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size
$System_Drawing_Size.Height = 284
$System_Drawing_Size.Width = 426
$groupBox1.Size = $System_Drawing_Size
$System_Drawing_Point = New-Object System.Drawing.Point
$System_Drawing_Point.X = 3
$System_Drawing_Point.Y = 12
$groupBox1.Location = $System_Drawing_Point
$groupBox1.TabStop = $False
$groupBox1.DataBindings.DefaultDataSourceUpdateMode = 0
$groupBox1.TabIndex = 5

$form1.Controls.Add($groupBox1)
$Displayfile.TabIndex = 0
$System_Drawing_Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size
$System_Drawing_Size.Height = 23
$System_Drawing_Size.Width = 75
$Displayfile.Size = $System_Drawing_Size
$Displayfile.Name = ‘Displayfile’
$Displayfile.UseVisualStyleBackColor = $True

$Displayfile.Text = ‘Display file’
$System_Drawing_Point = New-Object System.Drawing.Point
$System_Drawing_Point.X = 341
$System_Drawing_Point.Y = 22
$Displayfile.Location = $System_Drawing_Point

$Displayfile.DataBindings.DefaultDataSourceUpdateMode = 0
$Displayfile.add_Click($Displayfile_OnClick)

$groupBox1.Controls.Add($Displayfile)

$openFileDialog1.FileName = ‘openFileDialog1′

#endregion Generated Form Code

#Show the Form
$form1.ShowDialog()| Out-Null

} #End Function

#Call the Function
GenerateForm

Many thanks for the tool.

James

The form generator is only responsible for generating code to create the form. What I did when I need to make changes was export the new form to the clipboard, paste into a new file, then copy and paste the new form code into my existing script, keeping all the the script blocks and functions.