May, 2008

I've been working with the folks over at Developer Zone on a quick reference card for PowerShell, based on my book . The card is now complete and is available as a free download. (PDF, registration required.) This is an 8-page card that covers the...

Well here we are at the end of a week of WPF.  We've learned how to create basic, simple user interactive interfaces.  We've seen a brief glimmer of the golden UI layer that is WPF, and have seen how we can use PowerShell to add easy interactivity...

For the next part in the series, I've introduced another update to the Show-Control function you first met in Part 4. In this update, I've added the ability to run the control you've created in a background runspace as a switch. In order to do this...

In the last post we met XAML, and I gave you a core function (Show-Control) that will help you make interactive WPF controls quite nicely in PowerShell. You can see that, by using Show-Control, it is possible to reduce the size and complexity of a...

A number of people are confused by the WPF/PowerShell series and are "asking WTF?". Aaron has a blog entry, WPF and PowerShell Series - I don't get it . Caywen left a comment on the first in posting saying, "Ugh, I could make a peanut butter and squid...

We're not halfway through our week of WPF, and I'm pretty sure at this point that you have an all right grounding in the basics of WPF & PowerShell, but so far, the scripts haven't really been very much like most PowerShell scripts, and the UIs have...

So far, most of the wpf and powershell scripts you have seen have seen just show you something, but don’t do anything that interactive. However, In order to make real applications you need to be able to handle events. Luckily, PowerShell can make...

In my previous post, I showed you how to create “Hello World” scripts using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows PowerShell. While “Hello World” is relatively easy to write with WPF, it is only the tip of the iceberg of the types of quick...

Welcome to the Week of WPF. During the next 7 days, I’ll help show you how you can use WPF and PowerShell together. PowerShell could always script almost everything in .NET, but, prior to the recent CTP2 you could not script Windows Presentation Foundation...

When we designed PowerShell we decided that we wanted to have Shell syntax and semantics because this is what was missing from the market and because it supports the ad hoc development practice that is so suited to the needs of administrators. We also...

Would like to see what a PowerShell V2 world would look like? If so, check out Jaykul Bennett's Select-Grid script HERE . Here is what impresses me so much about this: It is very useful to a broad range of users. It is simple to use and beautiful...

Superstar Dmitry Sotnikov has done the world a great service today by documenting how to get PowerShell running on WS08 Server Core HERE . Just to be clear, this is not a MSFT supported configuration. That does NOT mean that we think it won't work. What...

The TIOBE Programming Community Index provides a monthy rating of the popularity of programming languages. This month's headline was: PowerShell on its way to the top 20 I'm not sure how they rate popularity or how they came up with that title ...

Doug Finke has just posted a blog entry HERE with an awesome 7 minute video demo HERE. I HIGHLY recommend this as a great use of 7 minutes of your life (or as Doug points out, you can type Ctrl-Shift-G to speed it up and it will be a great use of 4-5...

I just got through reading Scott Hanselman's blog entry:  TypeConverters: There's not enough TypeDescripter.GetConverter in which he referenced  Jesse Liberty's blog entry: Did You Know That... Type Converters allow you to use property attributes...

PowerShell V2 introduces a new capability which allows you to remotely manage machines in your organization. I will give a basic overview of PowerShell remoting here and follow it up with some adavanced topics later. Are you ready for the fun.. A remote...

Script Cmdlets are one of the coolest things about the newer version of PowerShell. A Script cmdlet allows you to use all of the variety of cmdlet parameter sets inside of PowerShell functions. Since Script Cmdlets are PowerShell functions, and the...

The second CTP of PowerShell V2 (CTP2) introduces full engine support for transactions – groups of actions that can be finalized or undone in an all-or-nothing way. Wikipedia gives a great overview of transactions here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_transactions...

The Windows PowerShell Team is pleased to release the second Community Technology Preview (CTP2) of Windows PowerShell V2! This release adds a plethora of new features. PowerShell remoting now allows a one-to-one interactive experience. Thought about...

MMS is going well. Yesterday Dan and Bruce presented an Introduction To PowerShell talk and then we all presented a What's Coming In PowerShell V2 talk. The slides are attached. Cheers! Jeffrey Snover [MSFT] Windows Management Partner Architect...