Powershell - Pumping Locally Installed Applications into Listbox - powershell

Question

So I'm trying to get all the locally installed applications and put them into a listbox. However, I'm having some problems. Whenever I use the below code:
$prog = (get-wmiobject win32_product -computer $current_hostname.text -property Name).Name
foreach($program in $prog)
{
$program_list_current.items.add($program)
}
Whats returned in the listbox is the applications plus some other text/string at the beginning of each app. In some cases, where '-property Name' is replaced with ' | select Name', nothing is returned at all.
I'm using the above syntax because the below code works (which gets the AD groups for a machine and puts each group into a listbox):
$processnames_t = (Get-ADComputer -Identity $current_hostname.text -Property MemberOf).MemberOf
foreach ($processname in $processnames_t)
{
[void]$AD_list_current.Items.Add($processname)
}
Any ideas as to why it works for the AD groups but not the installed apps? Maybe something to do with the nature of get-wmiobject?
Thanks

Answer 1

I couldn't really repro the issue you are seeing. But, for the program names, you can replace
$prog = (get-wmiobject win32_product -computer $current_hostname.text -property Name).Name
with
$prog = get-wmiobject win32_product -computer $current_hostname.text | Select -Exp Name
Select Name alone won't work as it returns the object and not a string. In this case, to use it as a listbox item, you need the string.