Use Read-Host in different hosts

The implementation of Read-Host differs…depending on the hosting application.…So, what you're looking at now…is what most people call the console application.…When you use Read-Host here,…prompts appear on the command line.…You type here response and hit Enter.…If we take this exact same command,…copy it to the clipboard and paste it into the…integrated scripting environment.…And right here, you can see that Read-Host is now…implemented as a pop up dialog box with a Cancel button.…

So, I can enter my response into the text box…and hit OK and then check to see that,…yep the result did go into the variable correctly.…So, the behavior of Read-Host can potentially differ…depending on exactly where you are using it.…Just be aware of that.…There is no native way in PowerShell to force…the console host to pop up a dialog box like that.…Without diving into the .Net Framework…and doing a tiny little bit of programming,…input is always collected at the command line.…

In the ISE, it's exactly the opposite.…Since there isn't really a command line per se,…