Chapter 38. Building a GUI
This chapter covers
- Using Windows Forms
- Using WPF and ShowUI
- Leveraging a GUI
Although PowerShell is obviously all about the command line, there may well be times when you want to create a script that displays a graphical user interface (GUI), perhaps for less technically proficient colleagues or end users. Fortunately, PowerShell is built atop the .NET Framework, which offers not one but two ways of displaying a GUI.
As with some of the other chapters in the latter part of this book, we need to set some expectations. Creating and programming a GUI is pure .NET Framework programming, plain and simple. Entire, massive books exist on the topic, so there’s no way we can cover all that material in this chapter. ...
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