PowerShell meet WPF via PowerBoots

Joel "Jaykul" Bennett released a new version PowerShell PowerBoots on CodePlex.

PowerBoots is inspired by Ruby Shoes a graphics toolkit. I blogged about Ruby Shoes and the start of a PowerShell version doing some simple work using WinForms.

PowerBoots goes deep, check it out:

• Asynchronous UIs and event handling
• WPF graphical user interfaces
• Support for Control Templates and Styles, DataTemplates, and Attached Dependency Properties
• Generate graphical widgets that automatically update in the background, and interact with them from the console

Example

I put this together so I can see the services and processes running on my box.

 

 

Click the Services radio button Get-Services cmdlet is executed. The $targetProperty is set to Status for display.

Select a server and it’s status is displayed.

 

 

 

 

 

Click the Processes radio button and the ps alias is run. The $targetProperty is set to Company property which is displayed.

Selected a process and the Company Name is displayed.

 

 

 

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