Is there a substitue for System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.GetActiveObject() in .NET Core?
See the question and my original answer on StackOverflowHere is an equivalent implementation that works for .NET core 3.1+ on Windows (and .NET framework):
public static object GetActiveObject(string progId, bool throwOnError = false)
{
if (progId == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(progId));
var hr = CLSIDFromProgIDEx(progId, out var clsid);
if (hr < 0)
{
if (throwOnError)
Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(hr);
return null;
}
hr = GetActiveObject(clsid, IntPtr.Zero, out var obj);
if (hr < 0)
{
if (throwOnError)
Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(hr);
return null;
}
return obj;
}
[DllImport("ole32")]
private static extern int CLSIDFromProgIDEx([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)] string lpszProgID, out Guid lpclsid);
[DllImport("oleaut32")]
private static extern int GetActiveObject([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStruct)] Guid rclsid, IntPtr pvReserved, [MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.IUnknown)] out object ppunk);
I'm not a Powershell expert, but I think you can port that to Powershell or use a bit of C# directly in Powershell.