Redmond

Why PowerShell Timers Cause Problems in GUI Environments, Part 1

PowerShell GUI timers can freeze dashboards when updates run outside the UI thread. Windows Forms timers update labels correctly but can make interfaces completely unresponsive. Responsive PowerShell ...
MCPmag

Retrieving Status Through PowerShell's Graphical Windows Form

In the last lesson I demonstrated how to use the title bar of the PowerShell console or the PowerShell ISE to display status messages. Another option is it use a graphical Windows form. Normally, when ...
Redmond

Dynamically Construct a PowerShell GUI, Part 1

Learn how to use loops and dynamic object naming in PowerShell to build GUI settings interfaces that can adapt as new parameters are added. For the past several months, I have been hard at work ...
Network World

PowerGUI unleash the power of PowerShell while using a familiar GUI management interface

Since its introduction I have come across two very different reactions for PowerShell. Some love it since to them it is a connection to old school systems, fond memories of DOS (really!!!) or the idea ...
MCPmag

How To Display GUI Message Boxes in PowerShell

A lot of people think that PowerShell is simply a command line language. They believe that the only thing PowerShell can do is output text to a boring console screen. Au contraire, my friend! Since ...
GitHub

A GUI form built in Powershell to efficiently generate a CSR and Private Key file using OpenSSL for quick and easy cert generation

Make sure you first have OpenSSL installed and your environmental variables set so that you can get to open ssl from a terminal for this. Open the .ps1 file in the directory that you want to generate ...