Powershell creating shortcut - powershell

Question

I have a powershell script that won't update the $TargetFile Properly. Here is my code:
$TargetFile = "C:\Users\wjschan\AppData\Roaming\DAS Toolbox\DAS Toolbox.exe"
$ShortcutFile = "$StartMenuPath\$ApplicationName.lnk"
$WScriptShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
$Shortcut = $WScriptShell.CreateShortcut($ShortcutFile)
$NewTarget = $TargetFile
$Shortcut.TargetPath = $TargetFile
$Shortcut.IconLocation = $IconLocation
$Shortcut.Save()
But when I right click on the shortcut it lists "This PC" as the target. However if I put this code in, it works fine:
$ShortcutFile = "$StartMenuPath\$ApplicationName.lnk"
$WScriptShell = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell
$Shortcut = $WScriptShell.CreateShortcut($ShortcutFile)
$NewTarget = $TargetFile
$Shortcut.TargetPath = "C:\Users\wjschan\AppData\Roaming\DAS Toolbox\DAS Toolbox.exe"
$Shortcut.IconLocation = $IconLocation
$Shortcut.Save()
I'm at a loss as to why hard coding the file path works but a variable does not. It's worked before if $TargetFile points to a differnt path (Say a network share).
Win10, Build 1607 (Current Business Branch) - and no I can't get a newer build.

Answer 1

Apparently your $TargetFile is not a String type.
I suspect it is of a IO.FileInfo type as you probably dynamically building up the path.
To find out what object type it actually concerns, try: $TargetFile.PSTypeNames
To force it to a String, wrap it into quotes, like:
$Shortcut.TargetPath = "$TargetFile"
Or use: $TargetFile.ToString() or [String]$TargetFile