Rich formatting for PowerShell help
[updated] Ok, I just updated this with a new post on PoshCode. I posted the HtmlHelp module to PoshCode for generating HTML web pages based on the help for functions or cmdlets. It basically has one command: Get-HtmlHelp, which takes a couple of parameters now. The only mandatory parameter is the name of the command [...]
The Obligatory ShowUI Clock
Well, it all started when Richard Siddaway posted his PowerShell Clock using raw XAML. Then Doug posted his ShowUI Clock, and after some back and forth on our ShowUI developer mailing list, James Brundage posted a video walkthrough of building his clock … Now I’ve dug an old clock of mine out of mothballs and [...]
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 [...]