APPENDIX F

Building Your Own GUI with PowerShell

IN THIS APPENDIX, YOU WILL LEARN TO:

CHOOSE BETWEEN WINFORMS AND WPF	380
CREATE A GUI IN POWERSHELL	381
Create a WinForms Application	385
Create a WPF Application	391

Command-line scripts are great from an administrative perspective, but the people who may work with these scripts or their output may not necessarily be comfortable in a command-line realm. It would help to create a graphical user interface (GUI) for them to feel a little more comfortable.

Since PowerShell can take advantage of the .NET Framework, GUI development options include Windows Forms (WinForms) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). In this chapter, you will learn the strong points of these technologies and how to use PowerShell to create GUIs with them.