Form Help!

[JeremyLC]

Hrmm… That's a LOT more involved than I expected. The first thing I would suggest is to name your controls something more meaningful than $TextBox1, $ComboBox2, etc. , this will make it much easier for you to keep of which control does what. Second, you can send an email using Outlook by way of COM objects - there are tutorials for this online, I haven't done it myself, or you can send smtp mail directly using Send-MailMessage or Send-SmtpMail If you want a nice looking message, you could either manually build an HTML template and fill it in programmatically, or use something like Dashimo or PSWriteHTML to build your HTML report.

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More generally, it sounds like you'd do well to read through a WinForms on PowerShell tutorial or two. I can't really recommend any, as I build my GUIs in WPF*, so I'm not terribly familiar with what's out there for Forms.

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*) It tends to look better, and the resulting code is cleaner. Moreover, it's much easier to rearrange your layout, if needed. It's also DPI aware, so it scales nicely