Toast History access and Toast removal failures on PowerShell 7.1

[wi-fr]

On PowerShell 7.1 released just now, the Get-BTHistory and Remove-BTNotification functions no longer work.

Steps to reproduce

Get-BTHistory
Remove-BTNotification

Expected behavior

The Get-BTHistory function to return the toast notifications in the Action Center and the Remove-BTNotification function to remove toast notifications from the Action Center

Actual behavior

Both functions fail with the error:
Unable to cast object of type 'WinRT.IInspectable' to type 'Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastNotificationHistory'.
stemming from the “Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastNotificationManager” class that is included in the BurntToast module.

Environment data

[36] ► $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.1.0
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.1.0
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.19042
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

[37] ► Get-Module BurntToast -ListAvailable


    Directory: C:\Users\Willi\Documents\PowerShell\Modules

ModuleType Version    PreRelease Name                                PSEdition ExportedCommands
---------- -------    ---------- ----                                --------- ----------------
Script     0.8.3                 BurntToast                          Desk      {Get-BTHistory, New-BTAction, New-BTAppId, New-BTAudio…}
Script     0.7.2                 BurntToast                          Desk      {Get-BTHistory, New-BTAction, New-BTAppId, New-BTAudio…}
Script     0.7.1                 BurntToast                          Desk      {Get-BTHistory, New-BTAction, New-BTAppId, New-BTAudio…}

[KrX3D]

i get the same problem with PS 7.1 ;)

ToastNotificationManager]::Hist …
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Unable to cast object of type 'WinRT.IInspectable' to type 'Windows.UI.Notifications.ToastNotificationHistory'.

[Windos]

Thanks for the report, I've got a fix for this (found it in the rush to get a presentation on this module prepped) but forgot to get it rolled out!

Expect the fix in the next update

[IanBAdams]

I had installed PowerShell 7.1 from the Microsoft Store a couple of weeks back. When I ran New-BurntToastNotification nothing happened, no errors, no warnings and no notifications. Get-Command -Module BurntToast output listed the various BurntToast commands as you would expect,

Uninstalled PowerShell 7.1 and then re-installed using Invoke-Expression "& { $(Invoke-RestMethod https://aka.ms/install-powershell.ps1) } -UseMSI" and tried New-BurntToastNotification again. This time it worked OK so I guess either something was wrong with my Microsoft Store installed version of PowerShell or something is different between the installs from the Microsoft Store and the Invoke-Expression method.

Got the same behavior as noted above with Get-BTHistory and Remove-BTNotification (i.e. Unable to cast object error) with both the Microsoft Store and Invoke-Expression methods.

Just passing this on in case anyone else raises issues with running BurntToast against PowerShell 7.1 installed from the Microsoft Store.