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 […]
Category: Beginners
PowerShell GUIs: Where do I start?
Follow @juneb_get_help I’ve been using Windows PowerShell since the very first version of Monad in 2005, but PowerShell-based applications with a graphic user interface (GUI) are a whole new world. Instead of thinking of cmdlets and parameters or properties and methods, you need to think in object events. And because there’s no console with .ps1xml-directed […]
Copy to Clipboard in a GUI Application
Follow @juneb_get_help During #PSBlogWeek, I shared with my co-authors a little GUI-based blogging tool that gets links to the online version of PowerShell help topics, including About topics. I didn’t think much of it, because it was my first GUI app, but I soon received a nice compliment from PowerShell MVP Jeffery Hicks with a […]
Creating a GUI for CSV Data
Follow @juneb_get_help I often manage data in CSV files, typically data that originates in an Excel spreadsheet. The Import-Csv cmdlet, which creates custom objects from the contents of a CSV file, makes CSV data an optimal choice in Windows PowerShell. But, how do you manage CSV data in a Windows UI? PowerShell Studio offers several […]
Manage Errors in a GUI Application
Follow @juneb_get_help In a previous post, I talked about displaying output in a GUI application. But I really covered only the primary output of cmdlets. In this post, we’ll discuss some very basic strategies for detecting and displaying terminating and non-terminating errors in a GUI application. This is a critical topic. If you’re used to […]
PowerShell Studio Templates : Get a head start on your scripts
When you open a new script file (.ps1) in PowerShell Studio 2014, you don’t get a blank page, at least by default. Instead, the page begins with a comment block, like this one: <# .NOTES =========================================================================== Created with: SAPIEN Technologies, Inc., PowerShell Studio 2014 v4.1.74 Created on: 11/5/2014 4:28 PM Created by: juneb Organization: SAPIEN […]
Removing Objects from Arrays in PowerShell
A member of the PowerShell group on Facebook asked how to delete an object from an array. It’s a simple question, but the answer isn’t very simple at all. It’s one of those beginner questions that has an advanced answer. When I first answered this question in about_Arrays, I didn’t really know much about […]
Update-OneGet: Install OneGet on PS 3.0+
One of the coolest new features in the Windows PowerShell 5.0 preview is the OneGet module. Windows PowerShell program manager, Dan Harman, describes OneGet as a “package manager manager,” but for most of us, it represents a simple, repeatable, and reliable way to install, update, and uninstall a variety of available programs from a variety […]
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 […]
Customizing the Console
Even though I’ve been writing scripts for years, I find that I work in the Console Pane in PowerShell Studio 2014 almost as much as I work in the Editor Pane. I use the Console Pane to look up commands and syntax (Get-Command), test a parameter value, or work through the details of a pipeline […]
