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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk with Joel Bennett and James Brundage about scriptable user interfaces.

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      Antoine

  blogged about v0.4 of PoshBoard   and his presentation given at Techdays 2009 France

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      [PrimalScript 2009 released](http://blog.sapien.com/index.php/2009/02/16/primalscript-2009-released/)!


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      Upcoming PowerShell UK UG schedules

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      Karl Prosser

  blogs about   the new release of PowerShellPlus 2.1 beta

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                  dougchase : ## What do we need to do to get started with this stuff?


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                  jkavanagh58 : ## Is PrimalForms WPF?


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                  dougchase : ## Does it work in V1 and how do I implement it in V1?  Seems like I read it worked in both versions but I couldn't figure out how to start using it in V1.


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                  ChadMiller : ##Haven't looked at WPF. Can you write a web page in WPF like powershellasp?


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                  rfoust : ## can you recommend a site to understand the basics of WPF?


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                  hal: Will these scriptable UI tools be able to replace HTA?


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                  jasonmarcher : ## How easy is it to create data templates and add them to existing tools/controls







                 











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*New-Grid -Rows 5 {    * *    New-Label “Please Enter Your Name" * *    New-TextBox -Name YourName -Row 1 *     New-Label “Sex:” -Row 2     New-StackPanel -Row 3 { *        New-RadioButton -Content “Male” -IsChecked $true *         New-RadioButton -Content “Female” -Column 1     } *    New-Button “Done” -Row 4 -On_Click { * *        $yourName = $window | Get-ChildControl YourName * *        $sex = $window | * *            Get-ChildControl | *             Where-Object {                $_ -is [Windows.Controls.RadioButton] -and                $_.IsChecked *            } | *             Foreach-Object {                 $_.Content             }         if (-not $yourName.Text) {             [Windows.Messagebox]::show(“Who are you?”)         }         $global:information = New-Object Object |             Add-Member NoteProperty Name $yourName.Text -PassThru | *            Add-Member NoteProperty Sex $sex -PassThru        *         $window.Close()     } } -show

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                    Steve Murawski has a

  several part series   talking about using the .NET framework from PowerShell. (part 1,   part 2a,   part 2b)

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                    Andy did a

  blog post   that talks about custom objects

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                    PoshCode script:

  Compare-DatabaseSchema

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                    Lee Holmes

  posted a fun script to make perfect change

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                    James O'Neill

  posts some scripts   for working with the Vista/W7/Server 2008 firewall

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                    Joel has written a

  scriptable SSH client   in Powershell using an external .NET library

                     

                    Tips

 

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                      From StackOverflow.com:

  How to get the actual size-on-disk of a file from PowerShell?

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                      Shay posted some information about

  using help in PowerShell ISE

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                      Kirk Munro has an

  awesome blog post   talking about a quite wicked gotcha involving quoting rules and escape characters.