Please excuse the size of this thing … I’ll try to be less ridiculous next time, but in the meantime, you can view the full video at screencast.com.

P.S. I’ve released PowerBoots which does not quite do what you see in that demo (and only works with PowerShell 2.0 (currently at CTP3 release)), but can do all sorts of amazing things, as you can see in the PowerBoots tutorial.

It’s a very slick toolkit, right? Not only that, but it works on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X … unlike what I’m about to show you, which works only where PowerShell works …

So, I’m curious if anyone would like something like that for PowerShell … and more to the point, how many people would be interested in it, and whether anyone would be willing to help write it (because exposing all of the properties of the various controls is going to require a lot of repetitive coding).

What would it look like in PowerShell?

The simplest PowerBoots app

A few more buttons, in a stack

As a disclaimer, I copied the examples here from the Shoes tutorial I mentioned earlier, which is why they’re slightly kooky (Why The Lucky Stiff is a strange guy), and why I suggested you go read it before you read this. Of course, although these demos do work —and it’s all skinable and themeable— this is practically all that works in my demo, so don’t go thinking I’ve got a whole Shoes implementation for PowerShell.

A few options

I’m just trying to gauge the interest level — so if you’re interested, please comment below and let me know that you want it, what sorts of things you want it for (if you can think of any off the top of your head), and/or how involved you’d like to be. I’d love for someone to say: “Wow, that’s a great idea, I’m going to go finish it”, but anything short of that, right down to “I’d give you $5 to write it and give it away” is acceptable

One final note: the Out-Wpf cmdlet that you see here does work in v1 and v2 and can even do this (click for the full picture):

Out-WPF without PoshConsole

I’ll release that later this week…

PowerBoots Release

I’ve released a full script-based version of this. While it does everything you see above and more, it does not work in PowerShell 1. You can get an idea of how to use it by following the PowerBoots tutorial, and you can download PowerBoots, but for now it requires v2 CTP3. Let me hear from you if v1 support is important to ya.