Mixing variable and text in system.windows.forms

[oynaz]

SOLVED: See #2

Hi guys,

Programming newbie here.
I am writing a tool which among other things needs to list some servers from a configuration file. The tool needs a GUI, and I am using PowerShell with .net components to write it (it might be an idea to use .net only for this, but that is a task for the future),

I can parse from the configuration file, and create a window for the GUI. I can use labels to display describing text and the variables I use to store the content from the config file, but I cannot figure out how to mix the variables and text. I suspect I need some sort of escape character, but I do not now which.

#Load nescessary .net components
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing") 
[void] [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms") 

#Get variable from environment variable
$fromenvvariable = $env:Configroot

#Get content from config file
[xml]$datafromconfigfile = Get-Content $fromenvvariable\servicesconfiguration.XML

#Get machine name
$datafromconfigfile.configuration.services | %{$_.machineName} | select-object -unique



        #Add form and controls
	$objForm = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form 
	$objForm.Text = "Server locations"
	$objForm.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(300,400) 
	$objForm.StartPosition = "CenterScreen"

	#Add text box label for presentation
	$objLabel = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
	$objLabel.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(10,20) 
	$objLabel.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(280,100) 
	$objLabel.Text = "Some text`n`$datafromservicesconf.configuration.services.machineName"   <------- here is my problem, I think
	$objForm.Controls.Add($objLabel)
	
	#Create Next button
	$NextButton = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
	$NextButton.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,160)
	$NextButton.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
	$NextButton.Text = "Next"
	$NextButton.Add_Click({
	$objForm.Close()})
	$objForm.Controls.Add($NextButton)

	#Activate form
	$objForm.Add_Shown({$objForm.Activate()})
	[void] $objForm.ShowDialog()

Any ideas?

 

[KB]

Text concatenation can be done with the + character. so

$objLabel.Text = "Some text" + [System.Environment]::NewLine + $datafromservicesconf.configuration.services.machineName

 

[oynaz]

Thanks, I will try that.