Automating the world one-liner at a time…
May 30, 2008May 30, 200805/30/08I’ve been working with the folks over at Developer Zone on a quick reference card for PowerShell, based on my book. The card is now complete and is available as a free download. (PDF, registration required.)
This is an 8-page card that covers the PowerShell language,
May 28, 2008May 28, 200805/28/08Well here we are at the end of a week of WPF. We’ve learned how to create basic, simple user interactive interfaces. We’ve seen a brief glimmer of the golden UI layer that is WPF, and have seen how we can use PowerShell to add easy interactivity to XAML.
May 27, 2008May 27, 200805/27/08For the next part in the series, I’ve introduced another update to the Show-Control function you first met in Part 4. In this update, I’ve added the ability to run the control you’ve created in a background runspace as a switch.
May 26, 2008May 26, 200805/26/08In the last post we met XAML, and I gave you a core function (Show-Control) that will help you make interactive WPF controls quite nicely in PowerShell.
You can see that, by using Show-Control, it is possible to reduce the size and complexity of a script that creates UI.
May 25, 2008May 25, 200805/25/08A number of people are confused by the WPF/PowerShell series and are “asking WTF?”. Aaron has a blog entry, WPF and PowerShell Series – I don’t get it. Caywen left a comment on the first in posting saying, “Ugh, I could make a peanut butter and squid sandwich,
May 24, 2008May 24, 200805/24/08We’re not halfway through our week of WPF, and I’m pretty sure at this point that you have an all right grounding in the basics of WPF & PowerShell, but so far, the scripts haven’t really been very much like most PowerShell scripts,
May 23, 2008May 23, 200805/23/08So far, most of the wpf and powershell scripts you have seen have seen just show you something, but don’t do anything that interactive.
However, In order to make real applications you need to be able to handle events. Luckily, PowerShell can make that pretty easy.
May 23, 2008May 23, 200805/23/08In my previous post, I showed you how to create “Hello World” scripts using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows PowerShell.
While “Hello World” is relatively easy to write with WPF, it is only the tip of the iceberg of the types of quick user interfaces you can write.
May 22, 2008May 22, 200805/22/08Welcome to the Week of WPF. During the next 7 days, I’ll help show you how you can use WPF and PowerShell together.
PowerShell could always script almost everything in .NET, but, prior to the recent CTP2 you could not script Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) in PowerShell.
May 21, 2008May 21, 200805/21/08When we designed PowerShell we decided that we wanted to have Shell syntax and semantics because this is what was missing from the market and because it supports the ad hoc development practice that is so suited to the needs of administrators. We also observed that most shells ran out of power pretty quickly and people had to throw away their scripts and start from scratch with a more powerfull scripting language like Perl.
