Can't get Out-GridView to display two objects

Question

I have two objects $A & $B that each contain a CSV import. Within both objects two columns exist that share the same property name ( DisplayName & LoginName ). First of all, I want to combine those and at some point within my script pipe them to Out-GridView .

Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a way to do that.

$A = Import-csv -Path "C:\Users\[...]" | Where-Object {$_.LoginName -like "*[...]*"} | Sort DisplayName
$B = Import-csv -Path "C:\Users\[...]" | Where-Object {$_.LoginName -like "*[...]*"} | Sort DisplayName

$displayNames = ($A.DisplayName) + ($B.DisplayName)
$loginNames = ($A.UserPrincipalName) + ($B.LoginName)

Now, at this point I can't use both $displayNames and $loginNames and simultaneously pipe them to Out-GridView .

I was thinking of combining the two objects but doing $displayNames + $loginNames results in an object that doesn't maintain the two properties.

Then I thought I could create a pscustomobject like so:

$combined = [pscustomobject] @{
DisplayNames = $displayNames
LoginNames = $loginNames
}

However, if I piped this into Out-GridView it would show me the two columns DisplayNames and LoginNames but all the values would be within an array so the output would only display one line.

Then I tried to convert both arrays into strings like so:

$combined = [pscustomobject] @{
DisplayNames = ($displayNames | Out-String)
LoginNames = ($loginNames | Out-String)
}

This time, I was almost there. Out-GridView indeed shows the expanded values in the two columns. Unfortunately, they could not be selected with the mouse anymore.

This is what it looks like:

What should I be doing differently?

Answer 1

This may work for you:

$displayNames = @('aaa','bbb','ccc'); 
$loginNames=@('xxx','yyy','zzz'); 
($displayNames | select @{n='NameType';e={'display'}},@{n='Name';e={$_}}) + 
($loginNames | select @{n='NameType';e={'login'}},@{n='Name';e={$_}}) | 
Out-GridView

Answer 2

Instead of using two arrays and all the nonsense of sorting them and trying to keep them in sync, plus the effort to joining them back for output, use a psobject instead with which can append the second files results to the first one. Something like this:

$results = Import-csv -Path "C:\Users\[...]" | Where-Object {$_.LoginName -like "*[...]*"} | % {
  New-Object psobject -Property @{
    DisplayName = $_.DisplayName
    LoginName = $_.UserPrincipalName
  }
}

$results += Import-csv -Path "C:\Users\[...]" | Where-Object {$_.LoginName -like "*[...]*"} | % {
  New-Object psobject -Property @{
    DisplayName = $_.DisplayName
    LoginName = $_.LoginName
  }
}

$results | Out-GridView