Episode 60 - Scripting UI with Joel Bennett and James Brundage

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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk with Joel Bennett and James Brundage about scriptable user interfaces.

News

 

 

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• Antoine blogged about v0.4 of PoshBoard and his presentation given at Techdays 2009 France
• PrimalScript 2009 released!
• Upcoming PowerShell UK UG schedules have been posted
• Karl Prosser blogs about the new release of PowerShellPlus 2.1 beta

Interview 

 

 

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• dougchase : ## What do we need to do to get started with this stuff?
• jkavanagh58 : ## Is PrimalForms WPF?
• dougchase : ## Does it work in V1 and how do I implement it in V1?  Seems like I read it worked in both versions but I couldn’t figure out how to start using it in V1.
• ChadMiller : ##Haven’t looked at WPF. Can you write a web page in WPF like powershellasp?
• rfoust : ## can you recommend a site to understand the basics of WPF?
• hal: Will these scriptable UI tools be able to replace HTA?
• jasonmarcher : ## How easy is it to create data templates and add them to existing tools/controls

 

New-Grid -Rows 5 {    
    New-Label “Please Enter Your Name” 
    New-TextBox -Name YourName -Row 1 
    New-Label “Sex:” -Row 2
    New-StackPanel -Row 3 {
        New-RadioButton -Content “Male” -IsChecked $true 
        New-RadioButton -Content “Female” -Column 1
    }
    New-Button “Done” -Row 4 -On_Click { 
        $yourName = $window | Get-ChildControl YourName 
        $sex = $window | 
            Get-ChildControl | 
            Where-Object {
               $_ -is [Windows.Controls.RadioButton] -and
               $_.IsChecked
            } | 
            Foreach-Object {
                $_.Content
            }
        if (-not $yourName.Text) {
            [Windows.Messagebox]::show(“Who are you?”)
        }
        $global:information = New-Object Object |
            Add-Member NoteProperty Name $yourName.Text -PassThru |
            Add-Member NoteProperty Sex $sex -PassThru        
        $window.Close()
    }
} -show

Resources

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• Steve Murawski has a several part series talking about using the .NET framework from PowerShell. (part 1, part 2a, part 2b)
• Andy did a blog post that talks about custom objects
• PoshCode script: Compare-DatabaseSchema
• Lee Holmes posted a fun script to make perfect change
• James O’Neill posts some scripts for working with the Vista/W7/Server 2008 firewall
• Joel has written a scriptable SSH client in Powershell using an external .NET library

 

Tips 

• From StackOverflow.com: How to get the actual size-on-disk of a file from PowerShell?
• Shay posted some information about using help in PowerShell ISE

Gotcha

• Kirk Munro has an awesome blog post talking about a quite wicked gotcha involving quoting rules and escape characters.

 

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