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Create Dropdown and pass selection back to script

I have a script that builds a CSV file (Name, Description).

I'd like to have some sort of pop-up occur that has a dropdown of only one of the collumns. Once the item is selected and the user clicks okay, it sends that variable back to the script for further processing. I'm at a loss of how to go about doing this. Would someone please help me out and show me a simple example of how to do this?

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Brent Challis

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jat0369

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This is exactly what I'm looking for. Great work!
I took the SelectItemFromList.txt and renamed it dropdown.ps1
I referenced the file and called the function and It's giving me a bit of a problem. What am I doing wrong?

PS C:\Install\POS_PREP> $thisScript = Split-Path -Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition -Parent
PS C:\Install\POS_PREP> . ($thisScript + '.\dropdown.ps1')
PS C:\Install\POS_PREP> Select-ItemFromList -option "One","Two","Three" -mode Menu -selectionMode None
Unable to find type [System.Windows.Forms.SelectionMode]: make sure that the assembly containing this type is loaded.
At C:\Install\POS_PREP\dropdown.ps1:73 char:41
+     [System.Windows.Forms.SelectionMode] <<<< $selectionMode = [System.Windows.Forms.SelectionMode]::One
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (System.Windows.Forms.SelectionMode:String) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : TypeNotFound

PS C:\Install\POS_PREP>

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jat0369

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Hi BChallis - any update to this? Any idea as to what I'm doing wrong?

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I ended up solving the issue myself using the code supplied. It's not as clean as the version bchallis supplied, but it works.