powershell script running good from ISE but having problem from cli - windows

I have written a ps script which do the the job when i execute it from ISE but when i save it and run it from CMD i have an error,
basicly i have made gui with list of OU and list of GPO and i wanted to make a link and unlink button (eg OU named blabla and GPO named GPOblabla so if i check them both and press link the code would link and unlink would unlink)
the problem is (with my understanding) with the button2 (unlink) function which is defined at the beginning of the code, and in that function im using command that use parameters later in the code, i guess ISE save it in memory? whats the best thing to do here?
here is the code:
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Drawing
$button2_click = {
try {Remove-GPLink -Name $GPO -target $OU}
catch {
Write-Warning $Error[0]
} $form.close() }
$form = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
$form.Text = 'GPO Connector V1.0'
$form.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(600,200)
$form.StartPosition = 'CenterScreen'
$button1 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$button1.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(10,120)
$button1.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$button1.Text = 'Link'
$button1.DialogResult = [System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult]::OK
$form.AcceptButton = $button1
$button2 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Button
$button2.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(90,120)
$button2.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(75,23)
$button2.Text = 'UnLink'
$Button2.Add_Click($Button2_Click)
$label = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Label
$label.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(80,20)
$label.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(480,20)
$label.Text = 'SELECT GPO And Corresponding OU (ONLY WORKSTATION OU)'
$form.Controls.Add($label)
$form.Controls.Add($button1)
$form.Controls.Add($button2)
$listBox = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.ListBox
$listBox.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(10,40)
$listBox.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20)
$listBox.Height = 80
$listBox2 = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.ListBox
$listBox2.Location = New-Object System.Drawing.Point(300,40)
$listBox2.Size = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(260,20)
$listBox2.Height = 80
#gpolist.txt holding the gpo's and oulist.txt would hold the ou's
Get-Content .\gpolist.txt | ?{$_ -notmatch "^#"} | Where-Object { $_.Trim() -ne '' } | ForEach-Object {
[void] $listBox.Items.Add("$_")}
Get-Content .\oulist.txt | ?{$_ -notmatch "^#"} | Where-Object { $_.Trim() -ne '' } | ForEach-Object {
[void] $listBox2.Items.Add("$_")}
$form.Controls.Add($listBox)
$form.Controls.Add($listBox2)
$form.Topmost = $true
$result = $form.ShowDialog()
if ($result -eq [System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult]::Cancel)
{ break }
if ($result -eq [System.Windows.Forms.DialogResult]::OK)
{
$GPO = $listBox.SelectedItem
$OU = $listBox2.SelectedItem }
New-GPLink $GPO -target $OU | out-null }

You're not setting variables $GPO and $OU until after showing the dialog, so these variables won't be defined in your $button2_click script block, so the Remove-GPLink call won't work as expected.
One way to solve the problem is to refer to both $listBox.SelectedItem and $listBox2.SelectedItem directly:
$button2_click = {
try {
Remove-GPLink -Name $listBox.SelectedItem -target $listBox2.SelectedItem
}
catch {
Write-Warning $Error[0]
}
$form.close()
}
Note that if you were to define variables $GPO and $OU inside that script block, you'd have to define them as $script:GPO = ... and script:$OU = ... if you wanted to also access them after closing the dialog.
As for why things worked in the ISE:
The ISE dot-sources your scripts when it runs them, and with repeated invocations variables may linger and affect subsequent runs.
The implication is that you had run at least once with the code path $GPO = $listBox.SelectedItem and $OU = $listBox2.SelectedItem getting hit, which would have made clicking on button 2 in subsequent runs "work".

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[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing")
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I am not sure if the path is correct, can someone point out what I'm doing wrong?
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or
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'Path' = 'HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Regedit'
'Name' = 'LastKey'
'Value' = 'Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList'
}
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regedit
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New-Object : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'Property'. Powershell 2.0 Windows 2008

I'm using this code in 2012 server but unable to run in windows 2008, i'm new to powershell script which tried to search online but unable to find an answer.
The error come from -property, which i tried -properties and pipe before -property also can't.
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Description = $Description
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UserId = ""
UserType = ""
Workstations = ""
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}
Error I receive:
Since it's no longer supported, it's tough to find documentation this far back, but I found mention of New-Object -Property being used in Windows Powershell 2.0. In the comments under your question, you state that you are running Powershell 1.0. I am fairly confident that -Property did not exist on New-Object in v1.0, so you likely need to update your Windows Management Framework to get Powershell 2.0 or later.
Note that 2.0 is no longer supported so I would recommend going with a more recent verison of Windows Powershell, at least 4.0 if not 5.1. If you can, Powershell Core (v6) would give you the most modern Powershell experience, and will work with most Windows Powershell cmdlets on Windows systems if you install the WindowsCompatibility PowerShell module.

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Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass
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$dateTime
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$dateTime
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>
Newly modified code below
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$dateTime
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I'm having trouble clearing a listbox that I created in my PowerShell form. If I call the listbox.Item.Clear method, the data stored in the listbox object is cleared but the items displayed in the from remain. Even after I try to create a new, blank listbox, the old items are still displayed. The listbox is created in a function that is called by a button click. I want the listbox to be cleared and repopulated each time the button is clicked. I can easily clear and re-add text to a text box by doing something like $textbox.Text = "new text". Is there a way to do this with a listbox? Here's what I have:
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The Dispose method leaves the Component in an unusable state. (You might not want this one.)
$form.Controls.Remove($listBox)
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Hide your listbox instead of removing it
$listBox.Items.Clear()
$listBox.Items.AddRange(*SomeArrayHere*)
The closest you can get to $textbox.text = "NewText"
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At line:5 char:7
import-module activedirectory
Missing = operator after key in hash literal
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