[new] Updated to PowerBoots 0.1
An introduction to PowerBoots
Please excuse me if I start by just copying the basic ideas of the Shoes Tutorial, but I figured that since PowerBoots is inspired by Shoes, that was as good a place as any to start. PowerBoots (or just “Boots”) is a PowerShell 2.0 module with functions [...]
Someone asked on the PowerShell Newsgroup about writing Advanced Functions, and specifically:
looking for a … guide to putting together an advanced function that is visible and usable every time I start Powershell. By visible I mean that when I do a ‘get-command’ I want my [advanced function]s to be listed alongside all the regular cmdlets. [...]
Awhile back I wrote a series of posts about WPF From PowerShell From PowerShell” which were about how you could load XAML in previous PowerShell 2 CTPs to create WPF user interfaces … a few people have mentioned loading XAML in PowerBoots, and a couple of people have posted other samples showing XAML even since [...]
WPF uses a concept called “Attached Properties” to handle certain things, like when you put controls into a DockPanel. Basically, anything you put inside a DockPanel has a property “Dock” which you can set … but because the property is actually defined by the DockPanel, it doesn’t show up in PowerBoots, so you can’t just [...]
Announcing the release of PowerBoots 0.1
This release of PowerBoots is the most exciting release software I’ve cranked out in awhile. It finally has almost all of the features that I have thought of so far (we’re still missing proper support for attached properties).
You can create pretty much any WPF element, including ones I haven’t thought [...]
I’ve finally finished the first public release of PoshWpf, and was getting ready to ship it as part of a new release of my PowerBoots module. The idea is that I need PoshWpf itself to be a stand-alone module so that it can be used in production with PowerShell 1.0, until such time as [...]
Once I started playing with the new ability, introduced in PowerBoots 0.0.4 to easily add support for new graphical controls to PowerBoots, I found all sorts of fun widgets out there in open-source land. I’ll write about a few of them in the future, but for now I’m just going to stick with Visifire. [...]
This is the fourth release of the PowerBoots module for PowerShell 2 (Download – 7z). PowerBoots is a framework for creating WPF GUIs from PowerShell, and this latest release brings a couple of bug fixes and two new features.
Now with tab completion
The biggest change in PowerBoots 0.0.4 is that tab-completion for parameters works in [...]
[new] You should check out the new release of PowerBoots, and the walkthrough PowerBoots Tutorial that I wrote up … this post is getting out of date.
If you haven’t seen the Ruby Shoes graphical framework, you should check it out. In fact, go read the tutorial and come back, because the rest [...]
I’m almost ready to release a version of Out-WPF which will work on both my PoshConsole host (embedding in the host when appropriate) and on PowerShell.exe, both in CTP3 and in v1 … but since Jeffrey outed my little video demo, I figured I might as well share it here.