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On Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:42:35 AM UTC-5, Paul K=F6lle wrote:
> Before switching technologies I'd check if this solves your problem=20
>=20
> http://geekswithblogs.net/Lance/archive/2009/01/14/pass-by-reference-para=
meters-in-powershell.aspx=20
>=20
> TL;DR IMHO "out" parameters are basically pointers (pass by reference)=20
>=20
> and need to be passed like GetSettingValue("name", [ref]$value)...
>=20

Thanks for the suggestion.  I believe the [ref] syntax was one of the thing=
s I tried, but it didn't work in the context of OLE Automation (IDispatch) =
calls.