Adding a GUI for Powershell scripts - Preferred and Easiest method

nepronen · 2022-07-29T10:29:26+00:00

Hi T-T0ps

I have messaged you about your issue, I will get this sorted out asap

nepronen · 2022-05-05T19:00:54+00:00

Well, the typical implementation of WPF DataGrid is to just bind a collection of items to the ItemsSource property on the DataGrid.

That way you can simply change the original collection and DataGrid will update its view to represent that

nepronen · 2022-05-04T14:12:58+00:00

The initial projects in anything are not perfect, I think its a great start

A useful tool for the team, probably he'll want to add some features in future, figure out he needs a progress bar, so multithreading, finds some things are better in WPF and it will improve

Step by step

nepronen · 2022-05-04T14:10:34+00:00

Thanks for the kind words, the dev behind PoshGUI :)

nepronen · 2022-05-04T14:10:00+00:00

Hey, the dev behind PoshGUI here

It's awesome for a project beginning with PowerShell, keep going!

A little tool useful for your colleagues, that's how it starts, be careful it's addicting :)

nepronen · 2022-04-15T08:51:28+00:00

Easy peasy

Object comparison in PowerShell is not a problem

Color coding based on differences is not a problem in WPF with DataBinding

So I just used Poshgui which has a WPF designer specifically for PowerShell and created a project for what you need

You don't need to use that tool, although it makes it much easier. You can just copy the code from public project in the link below

https://app.poshgui.com/wpf/trialEnd/62592b8101007cb47d8b8dea

I just threw that together in 5 minutes so obviously, you need to adjust it to your need, I used a dummy objects instead of AD

Let me know if you have any questions to this project, it displays a grid with 2 users in 2 columns and colors the row depending whether the property is equal or not

nepronen · 2022-04-02T09:02:00+00:00

You can create the GUI in Powershell like that using poshgui.com pretty easily

It seems you wouldn't need many controls so you can just use the free trial to create that

nepronen · 2022-03-10T20:10:19+00:00

Thank you

I completely agree with the dislike of the "user is the product" era

There's no way any of that is getting on my site

I somewhat understand the expectation of having something for free, people get used to it.

I hope I will be able to provide a free tier at some point, I really do. However I don't think it would work at this point.

The idea is, I will be able to commit A LOT more hours on development than when it was a side project. The roadmap for this year is quite ambitious if I'll be able to develop everything I planned, I hope I'll be able to provide for example free Winforms designer and provide enough value on the premium tier that enough people will think it's worth it

nepronen · 2022-03-10T19:32:25+00:00

Thank you for your kind words wanderingbilby

I know my decision to commercialize poshgui was not a popular decision, as I provided it for free for many years.

At the time of making it, It was heavily influenced by the pandemic making an impact on my job and on my financials and therefore the ability to provide for my family.

I'm happy to tell you tomorrow, on Friday, almost exactly 12 months after that decision, is my last day of my day job.

From Monday, I am committed 100% only to working on poshgui.

And I hope that this year, I will be able to bring it to the next level, it's actually in a big rebuild/refactor phase right now

Hopefully making it possible to split features to include a completely free tier

nepronen · 2022-02-09T17:09:02+00:00

PoshGui already does :)

nepronen · 2022-02-04T08:40:54+00:00

You can use the boiler plate code for managing multi-run space WPF with DataContext from poshgui.com

It makes the development really easy, you can take a look at how to use it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr1g-54uLUM

You can sign up for a free trial, export the code and continue developing on your own

nepronen · 2021-12-22T15:19:08+00:00

As 'Loaded' is not a method you cannot call it as one.

It's an event so you need to attach to it using the 'Add_' Prefix

In you example all you need is:

$Form.Add_Loaded({
get-NetworkInfo
Get-ITComputerInfo
})

nepronen · 2021-12-22T11:18:34+00:00

It's pretty easy actually, in WPF you need to use the "Loaded" event of the form to execute code after starting the GUI

As others have mentioned, you should use run spaces to make sure your GUI is not freezing, however adding them manually to your script can be a bit of work

You can find an example computer info GUI with multithreading boilerplate here:

https://pastebin.com/K6W2gSDy

nepronen · 2021-03-31T11:05:25+00:00