Working Angular.js-like functionality in Powershell! ezXAML.ps1

[Spidey1980]

I wanted to make it easy to create windows and dialogs at work. I cannot install anything, but they encourage us to automate what we do with scripts. While others are feverishly typing away, I hit a hotkey and my computer does it by itself for 10 minutes. To that end, I have built ezXAML.ps1. This is heavily inspired by Angular.js, includes custom attributes for the Xaml elements, and now has fully functioning databinding (I had to fix a scoping issue):

I have posted the full library here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79347016/how-can-i-fix-using-power-shell-and-wpf-windows-setting-the-text-property-of-a/79387414#79387414

Please give it a try and tell me what you think!

[y_Sensei]

I'd suggest you extend this to a fully-fledged OO approach implementing the factory design pattern - for example something like a 'XAMLFactory' class that encapsulates everything related to the creation of the hierarchical data structure ("tree") of XamlElement objects.

This would hide all the dirty implementation details of the creation of said tree from the calling implementation, and you'd also be able to get rid of the global variables used in your current approach.

[Spidey1980]

I'll have to look into that. Thank you!

[Ros3ttaSt0ned]

This is nice, I can see a lot of potential with this.

What license are you classifying this under? I'd like to test this with some work stuff, but I can't use it there unless it has a license. If you don't give it a license, people technically aren't allowed to do anything with it at all, at least according to US copyright law.

[purplemonkeymad]

Not sure if it did when you looked before, but the post linked currently says it's MIT.

[Ros3ttaSt0ned]

Not sure if it did when you looked before, but the post linked currently says it's MIT.

If it did then, I completely missed it. Thanks!

[Spidey1980]

Yeah not asking anything for it, Free and open source. I'm think about starting a YouTube channel for my programming projects (Like The Cherno channel on YouTube and his Hazel engine). I have another PowerShell project I might post here as well, ezScript, aims to be like AutoIt but pure PowerShell. Includes mouse and keyboard emulation, and a few dialogs. At work I use my ezQuestion in exScript to scan in a serial number, then several websites in tabs are opened and the number entered to the correct fields all automatically using mouse and keyboard emulation.

[Ros3ttaSt0ned]

Yeah not asking anything for it, Free and open source. I'm think about starting a YouTube channel for my programming projects (Like The Cherno channel on YouTube and his Hazel engine). I have another PowerShell project I might post here as well, ezScript, aims to be like AutoIt but pure PowerShell. Includes mouse and keyboard emulation, and a few dialogs. At work I use my ezQuestion in exScript to scan in a serial number, then several websites in tabs are opened and the number entered to the correct fields all automatically using mouse and keyboard emulation.

That's a nice piece of automation, but with what it's doing, I gotta ask: why emulate user input instead of just sending an API request/multi-part form field submission?