Try PowerShell – An Interactive Tutorial

I created a new CodePlex project Try PowerShell, here is the download.

Interactive PowerShell Tutorial

Is an interactive PowerShell  interpreter that runs in WPF which is also written in PowerShell using PowerBoots. The tutorial on the left has PowerShell code that can be run by clicking on the PS > button.

Features

• Click on the PS > button to execute it in the interpreter on the right hand side
• Clicking the PS > types the commands, you can then modify them and experiment
• Type arbitrary PowerShell commands and click run to see the results
• Click the magnifying glass and search inside the tutorial
• Use the slider to resize the text of the tutorial

PowerShell Authors

Can quickly build interactive tutorials for others. Placing their PowerShell between a .pscode/.epscode block and passing the text file to TryPowerShell.

TryPowerShell supports a simple text file to build the tutorial. Currently it supports a small markup. Creating a customized tutorial with embedded PowerShell code is easy and straightforward.

Markup

The Idea

I watched Michael Foord create his interactive IronPython Sliverlight version while he twittered his improvements. While a PowerShell Silverlight version would have been nice, using PowerBoots to build the WPF version worked out great.

My Thanks To

Michael Foord creator of Try Python, Joel ‘Jaykul’ Bennett creator of PowerShell PowerBoots and James Brundage of the PowerShell team.