Question

I have this DataLink DLL on my system – Interop.MSDASC.dll I am trying to load the same from Powershell like this –

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Interop.MSDASC.dll") | out-null

But, I get the following error –

Exception calling "LoadFile" with "1" argument(s): "Could not load file or assembly 'Interop.MSDASC.dll' or one of its dependencies.  is not a 
valid Win32 application. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800700C1)"
At line:1 char:32
+ [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile <<<< ("C:\Interop.MSDASC.dll") | out-null
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : DotNetMethodException

How do I correctly load this ?

Answer 1

This is a 32 bit COM object and therefore you must load it from a 32 bit instance of PowerShell. To do this on a 64 bit version of Windows you can execute powershell.exe or powershell_ISE.exe in this folder:
%SYSTEMROOT%\SysWow64\windowspowershell\v1.0

And, this is the complete code:

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\Interop.MSDASC.dll") 
$dataLinkInstance = new-object MSDASC.DataLinksClass
$dataLinkInstance.WriteStringToStorage("C:\\FrmPowershell.udl", "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;", 2)