Disabling Events in ShowUI
Because some things just work better in WPF. Let’s say you had a form that collected a bunch of user input, and then had a button that would fire off some work. We’ll assume that you wanted to prevent people from firing off the work again before they know the results of the first time, [...]
ShowUI: Handling Events and Producing Output
Once you get past the basics of WPF and ShowUI, learning to use nested panels or grids to achieve the layouts you want, and start getting a grip on what controls are available by default, the next step to building useful user interfaces is going to be handling user interactions. In programming, we call those [...]
ShowUI: the tutorial walkthrough
Ok, let’s be clear: you’ve seen this before, and this isn’t going to be the last you’ll see of it, because we’ve got much more in store in ShowUI, but for the first release of ShowUI, it’s obviously time to update this simple walkthrough of building simple user interfaces in PowerShell! An introduction to ShowUI [...]
PowerBoots (Next Generation UI) WPF for PowerShell slides
I gave a LiveMeeting presentation on PowerBoots last week, and these are the slides. I’m sorry to say that the recording did not work out, so you’ll have to wait for the next time I present it to see the demos. Luckily, the demo scripts I used are mostly the samples which are available in [...]
Creating WPF UIs for PowerShell with PowerBoots and Visual Studio WPF Designer
I’ve had several people ask me how PowerBoots compares to PrimalForms, or ask for a visual designer for PowerBoots. I usually answer something along the lines of the fact that Microsoft has already created a very good WPF/XAML designer in Visual Studio (including the free Express editions), particularly in 2010, so I don’t see why [...]
Format-PoshTable – A Video
Format-PoshTable (PowerBoots + DataGrid from WPFToolkit + PoshConsole) on ScreenCast or Vimeo (and PoshCode). If you can’t view that (it requires Windows Media Player), you can check it out through Vimeo below. I apologize for the size and quality of that, I didn’t read the HD instructions ahead of time. Skip to the end for [...]
WPF in PowerShell: PowerBoots 0.2
I’ve finally given over trying to improve PowerBoots for this iteration of development, and in between setting up the ScriptingGames.PoshCode site and releasing the PoshCode software on the main PoshCode.org site (it’s coming, I promise), I decided to take a few minutes and release this lates PowerBoots, and it’s a ground-breaking release, if I do [...]
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 [...]
PowerBoots: Loading XAML Windows in PowerShell 1.0 or 2.0
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 [...]