Did you know PowerShell can use Selenium?
This is sort-of a place-holder for a full-length post that I really ought to write about driving web testing from PowerShell using Selenium. I actually have a little module around for doing that with WaTiN, but honestly the Selenium project seems to be a lot more active, and has quite a bit of muscle behind [...]
PowerBoots: The tutorial walkthrough
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 [...]
More PowerBoots: PowerShell and Out-WPF
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.
PowerBoots – Shoes for PowerShell
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 of this will make a lot more sense then. It’s a very slick toolkit, right? Not only that, but it works on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X … [...]
WPF Window “Native” Behavior: Snap-To Screen Edges
There are many desirable behaviors for Windows applications that are just much harder to do than they should be with the tools that Microsoft has provided in the .Net Framework. In WPF, many of these behaviors are even harder to create than in Windows Forms because the necessary hooks take a bit more work to [...]
WPF From PowerShell – Select-Grid
After looking over the scripts I’ve pasted in the last few days it struck me that all of them load the UI from XAML — and for the most part, you can do pretty much whatever you need to do in WPF in pure PowerShell if you want to. To demonstrate this, I wrote a [...]
WPF From PowerShell – Something Useful
After posting my last post, I started thinking that perhaps I shouldn’t really have started with something so splashy . So I started thinking about what I could use as a proper example — not of what WPF can do, but of what you might want to use WPF for in PowerShell. I came up [...]
WPF From PowerShell – Updating Windows
In my last post I wrote about how you could make a WPF Splash screen window in PowerShell, but I stated that: “if the images are remote, the WPF window has to download them, and therefore won’t work” correctly. I had played with downloading images directly by setting the Source attribute of the image to [...]