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Saturday, February 14, 2015

GUIs in PowerShell

I've been teasing about PowerShell GUIs for a while now, but I've been swamped at work.

When we want to make PowerShell GUIs, we have two options, Windows Forms (WinForms) and Windows Presentation Framework (WPF). I've written both, but I prefer WinForms as I've seen issues where some WPF elements are not compatible with PowerShell v2 (DataGrid comes to mind). Yeah, yeah... Who cares? But the reality is that v2 is still out there. Actually, the problem wasn't PowerShell v2, it was the fact that v2 doesn't use .NET 4 out of the box. It can be made to use .NET 4, but I wasn't a huge fan of that approach.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Raspberry Pi 2 is here!

The Raspberry Pi 2 went on sale yesterday sporting a $35 price tag.