{"id":10091,"date":"2006-06-29T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2006\/06\/29\/listing-all-the-com-automation-progids\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:21:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:21:35","slug":"listing-all-the-com-automation-progids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/listing-all-the-com-automation-progids\/","title":{"rendered":"Listing all the COM automation PROGIDs"},"content":{"rendered":"

<edited 7\/2\/2006 to add categories and PSMDTAGs><\/p>\n

Windows PowerShell allows you to program against COM automation.  The typical way to do this is :<\/p>\n

$x = new-ojbect -ComObject <PROGID><\/font><\/p>\n

The question then is, how do I know what progids I can use.  Here are there 3 answers<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. You’ll know because someone (an article, a script, a blog entry, a friend) gave it to you.\n
  2. Divine inspiration\n
  3. Be on the same Mailing list as Riedwaan Bassadien .  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I’m lucky enough to be in category 3 so I’ll share a one-liner based upon Riedwaan’s recent email.<\/p>\n

    dir  REGISTRY::HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\CLSID -include PROGID -recurse | foreach {$_.GetValue(“”)}<\/font>
    <\/font><\/p>\n

    Thanks Riedwaan!<\/p>\n

    Enjoy!
    Jeffrey Snover
    Windows PowerShell Architect<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    PSMDTAG:FAQ: How do I know what COM progids I can use?
    PSMDTAG:TYPE:COM progids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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    <edited 7\/2\/2006 to add categories and PSMDTAGs> Windows PowerShell allows you to program against COM automation.  The typical way to do this is : $x = new-ojbect -ComObject <PROGID> The question then is, how do I know what progids I can use.  Here are there 3 answers You’ll know because someone (an article, a script, a […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}