1. Primalforms Community Edition Tutorial Free

PowerGUI Script Editor (I haven’t ever gotten the hang of PowerGUI itself) Powershell Community Extensions 1.2 (PSCX) PowerTab SQL PowerShell Extensions 1.61 (SQLPSX) PrimalForms Community Edition Books: PowerShell In Action by Bruce Payette Professional Windows PowerShell Programming: Snapins, Cmdlets, Hosts and Providers by Arul Kumaravel. PowerShell‎ ‎ Download. Oh, the page by Microsoft has the confusing title 'Windows Management Framework' but you can download it there. PrimalForms - community edition by PrimalTools is free, it is a GUI builder.

WPF or Windows Forms? If you want to create a for your Powershell script, you’ve got two options. You can either use Windows Forms (WinForms) or Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). I wont bother you with the technical differences (they are well explained if you’re interested). The practical differences however, are that with Windows Forms you will use the native Windows interface elements and you will have only limited control on how things will look like. With WPF you got the full freedom of design, but the downside is that it’s way more complicated to use than WinForms, especially for beginners.

And for WinForms, there are -Editors available, which generate native Powershell code. That’s a huge advantage, because you simply click your GUI-elements together and immediately get your ready-to-use Powershell code. You usually won’t have the time to create a fancy design anyway and if you really want to, you can do a few nice things with WinForms too. But for the purpose of creating a GUI for your administrative script or a nice and convenient little tool for your users, WinForms will do just fine.

I have been working with a trial of Sapien PowerShell Studio 2016 for a few days and I enjoy the ease of creating a GUI. Making tools for others to use is something I am enjoying. The licences for this software is about 400 something bucks.too rich for my blood. I was also looking into PowerShell for Visual Studios Community Edition.

I know there is a PowerShell add-on for create scripts but what about the GUI side of things. Can I use Visual Studios to make a GUI application without having to convert my script into VB first? I don't seem to be finding much on interwebs.Google you have let me down.You too YouTube.

Check out ISE Steroids: It has the capability to create XAML-based GUIs by either syncing a script file with Visual Studio or using a built-in visual XAML tool called KaXaml. It works really well and XAML, while complex, is much more flexible than forms. It comes at a cost but is quite a bit cheaper than PowerShell Studio PowerShell Studio is a great tool, but it is limited to using Forms and doesn't support XAML. The cost is definitely a problem for me as well. I really wish Sapien would offer a lower cost version of PowerShell Studio without the GUI editor - just a script editor with all it's IDE features.

I think it would sell better than the full version. EDIT: of course Forms and XAML are just code, so you can do all this manually without any fancy editors.

May not be easy, but could flow pretty smoothly once you get the hang of it. Also, snippets would be a key to success here. Mattmcnabb wrote: Check out ISE Steroids: It has the capability to create XAML-based GUIs by either syncing a script file with Visual Studio or using a built-in visual XAML tool called KaXaml. It works really well and XAML, while complex, is much more flexible than forms. It comes at a cost but is quite a bit cheaper than PowerShell Studio PowerShell Studio is a great tool, but it is limited to using Forms and doesn't support XAML.

The cost is definitely a problem for me as well. I really wish Sapien would offer a lower cost version of PowerShell Studio without the GUI editor - just a script editor with all it's IDE features. I think it would sell better than the full version. EDIT: of course Forms and XAML are just code, so you can do all this manually without any fancy editors. May not be easy, but could flow pretty smoothly once you get the hang of it. Also, snippets would be a key to success here.You can get ISE Steroids (I have it.) for free if you blog about it. Neally wrote: mattmcnabb wrote: Check out ISE Steroids: It has the capability to create XAML-based GUIs by either syncing a script file with Visual Studio or using a built-in visual XAML tool called KaXaml.

It works really well and XAML, while complex, is much more flexible than forms. It comes at a cost but is quite a bit cheaper than PowerShell Studio PowerShell Studio is a great tool, but it is limited to using Forms and doesn't support XAML. The cost is definitely a problem for me as well. I really wish Sapien would offer a lower cost version of PowerShell Studio without the GUI editor - just a script editor with all it's IDE features. I think it would sell better than the full version. EDIT: of course Forms and XAML are just code, so you can do all this manually without any fancy editors.

May not be easy, but could flow pretty smoothly once you get the hang of it. Also, snippets would be a key to success here.You can get ISE Steroids (I have it.) for free if you blog about it. Thanks Neally!

Primalforms Community Edition Tutorial Free

I did not know this:). Just to throw in my two cents: in the past, I've built a XAML based GUI in Visual Studio and tied it into a PowerShell script by hand. It's painful starting out, but once you get the hang of it, it really isn't that bad. What needs to happen, though, is Visual Studio needs to bring PowerShell in as a first-class citizen with full WPF and WinForms support and stop relying on Adam Driscoll to do all of the work by himself. By the way, Driscoll's PowerShell addon for Visual Studio is fantastic, and he has stated somewhere that he is planning to get the XAML editor working with it fully; I would post a link to where he said that, but I wasn't able to find it just now.