Follow @juneb_get_help Well-designed user interfaces make it as easy as possible for the user to enter the right input in the right format. One of the most effective ways to help a user is to provide suggested input or automatically complete the input that the user begins to type. As a UI newbie, I thought […]
Tag: UI
Run Selection v. Run Selection in Console
PowerShell Studio is full of features and options. As a new user, I’m trying to learn as many as I can. There are four options in the Run menu, so, of course, I tried them all. But the result was unexpected. Run and Run Selection run your code and show the result in […]
Expand All Aliases: Ctrl+Shift+A
Windows PowerShell aliases are very handy. They typically have fewer characters than the commands and parameters that they represent, so they’re quicker to type and great for tweeting. However, it has long been an established best practice that aliases should not be used in blogs, in help, in examples, or in any shared scripts and […]
Comment it out!
Today, I was experimenting with hash tables that had keys with multiple values. (More about that later!) But, in the course of my experimentation, I tried one technique and then another and then another. I didn’t want to delete any of my trial code, but I also didn’t want it to run. I just wanted […]
PowerShell Studio 2014: UI Changes
In the latest build of PowerShell Studio 2014 (v4.1.71) we made some UI changes to the Ribbon. Particularly the Home tab of the Ribbon: The most notable change is to the Run group. We changed the run and debug icons and rearranged the menu buttons: We separated out the remoting commands into their own menu: […]
