You can add buttons that run background processes or jobs that include status bars and indicators that help the end-user understand what is happening.You can add charts that automatically pull data from a specific cmdlet.You can add text boxes that have validation pre-configured so that it will validate whether or not you have an e-mail address or phone number.This gives you an easy way to add something to your form that is a complete thing (for lack of a better word) via drag and drop. You can package sets of common form controls, events, and functions as a control set. This is the one that matters! This is the promise of scripted GUIs in my opinion. It even gives you information about what the item does: This is handled via another intellisense helper that you can quickly move to with the up and down arrows. In the case of an enumerator, like the one above, it lets you select the item in the enumerator you would like to use. Once you are done entering that parameter, you hit tab to go to the next one. You can immediately start typing another variable or decimal. As you can see above, a variable name is created and highlighted. For example, the next image shows that it has typed the entire for me. It saves you from having to type out the entire class name. This is really nice with classes that use an enumerator. Once you have found the right method, you can press tab (like the helper says) to autofill the method’s parameters. You can press up and down (or click up and down in the intellisense helper) to select the appropriate parameter set that you plan to use: When you enter a method, you get a helper window to tell you the overloaded options. I should note that as of the beta you can convert to the alias foreach or % in place of Foreach-Object, but you cannot expand it back to a cmdlet. Regardless, you can now right click on a cmdlet or alias to toggle between the cmdlet and its aliases.Ĭmdlets have a ‘Convert to Alias’ context menu:Īliases have an ‘Expand to Cmdlet’ context menu. Toggle a Cmdlet to and from an aliasĪpparently, you could always toggle an entire script to remove all aliases. If you open the script again, the indicator resets to not being there. Once you save the file, the indicator turns green: If you open a script, and then make a change to that script, a yellow indicator shows that this has been changed:
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There is an indicator between your code and the line numbers that are triggered during a change to your code. Obviously, it’s really neat when trudging through the complex structure of a scripted winform, but I am finding that it’s really cool for large modules too.
There is a pane that will allow you to quickly click between events and functions in your projects. I’m glad this simple change is now in the app. I use this slider all the time in powershell_ise.exe when giving demos. This is a slider that will change the size of the fonts in your script window. These layouts continue to happen automatically, but you can also control them manually. Layouts can now be switched rapidly via a control in the bottom left. When working on forms, you need a whole different layout than you need when you want to just work on a simple script. One thing is clear when working with Primal Forms 2011, you definitely don’t want/use all of the panes that you have open all the time. It’s sure to spin up some conflict or debate. The only downside is that there is already a codeplex project with this name. It’s not only a full-fledged winform developing environment for PowerShell, but it’s also a fairly robust integrated scripting environment (ISE). It is a name that more appropriately tells what Primal Forms is. Here are some of the new features we saw (this is probably not a comprehensive list – it’s just the items that raised my eyebrow during the session): Primal Forms is now called PowerShell Studio 2012 Both had a whole set of new features, but it was the news about Primal Forms that I thought was worth blogging about. The session brought us through the updates that Sapien has made to iPowerShell, their iOS app and PrimalScript. I should note, not only did we get updates about their 2012 products, but we were handed USB keychains that were fully loaded with beta software! This gave us the opportunity to hear what the company has been up to directly from their CEO, Dr.
Sapien happened to sponsor the PowerShell track. I have just returned from the amazing lineup of PowerShell sessions at the NYC Techstravaganza.
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