Continuing on from where we left off in our last blog post entitled “PowerShellGet-GUI part 1″, let us examine some of the other features of the PowerShell Get GUI application. With our list successfully loaded with PowerShell Gallery modules, the user can take several actions: Select a module to inspect it’s properties Select a non-installed […]
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PowerShellGet-GUI Part 1
Back in mid-September, I presented a talk on “Building PowerShell GUI Tool Solutions” at the PowerShell Conference Asia in Singapore. The talk centered around GUI application design and development using PowerShell as the core language. During that talk , I developed an application that used PowerShell’s PSGet module to communicate with the PowerShell Gallery. Finishing work […]
Using Module-Qualified Cmdlet Names
Open-source projects and new methods of distributing modules, such as PowerShellGet and the PowerShell Gallery, have significantly increased the availability of Windows PowerShell modules. While we once relied on modules from Microsoft, we now can select from hundreds of new modules developed in the community. The upside of having so many modules is vastly increased […]
PowerShell Conference Asia 2015
PowerShell Conference Asia (#PSConfAsia) held its inaugural sessions on September 18th and 19th, 2015 at Microsoft headquarters in Singapore. SAPIEN was the platinum sponsor of this event. A great set of sessions was kicked off with a State of the Union talk by Jefferey Snover (Technical Fellow at Microsoft and creator of PowerShell). Ferdinand Rios (CEO of […]
Scope in a PowerShell GUI App
If you search the SAPIEN blog, you’ll realize that this is the not our first blog about scope in PowerShell GUIs. In March 2013, SAPIEN CTO Alex Riedel wrote First Rule of PowerShell Scoping Rules, a title that implies the final word in a discussion that wasn’t easy to end. Alex’s blog explained the differences […]
PowerShell GUI Debugging Tip: Duplicate Event Handlers
I’m not a professional tester, but I am an expert at making mistakes. I take risks. I try everything. I gravitate to “corner cases” and odd circumstances. That makes me a great amateur tester and, due to a lifetime of experience with breaking things, a pretty good debugger. But, at the Omaha PowerShell User Group meeting in August […]
The Methods that Register Events
If you create PowerShell GUI apps in PowerShell Studio, you become very familiar with the events of the Windows Forms types, like the Load event of forms, the Click event of buttons, and the TextChanged event of textboxes. PowerShell Studio handles most of the background details of event management for you, but it’s useful and […]
Typing Enter Pushes a Button
As a beginner developer of PowerShell GUIs, I’m always looking for easy ways to make my simple applications more sophisticated and usable. One of the basic usability features in most applications is typing <Enter> in a textbox to invoke a function instead of clicking a Start, Go, or OK button. In this post, I’ll show […]
Convince My Manager! PowerShell Studio 2015 Killer Features
Follow @juneb_get_help PowerShell scripters often send us requests for help and post them on our busy forums. None hits home with me like a request for help convincing a cash-strapped IT manager that they should buy professional tools, like PowerShell Studio, for their staff, because I’ve been in the same position. Importantly, this question almost […]
Why does this button close my form?
Have you ever copied a button and found that when a user presses it, the form closes immediately afterwards? We are here to answer: Why does this button close my form? The reason the form closes is that the Button control’s DialogResult property is set to a value other than None. This property tells the […]
