PowerShellTunnel - new on MSDN Code Gallery (app automation from P

Hi folks,

I added a new PowerShell project (with a source code release) to MSDN Code
Gallery:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PowerShellTunnel

The intro: "Host a PowerShell runspace and expose application objects as
ordinary PowerShell variables. Add a 'tunnel host', then use an ordinary
(local or remote) PowerShell console (or runspace) to 'tunnel' (connect using
WCF) to your application's runspace at runtime and script away."

Basically, the idea is you to open an ordinary PowerShell console and
'tunnel' into a running application and then invoke commands and scripts to
manipulate its objects (including piping in and out) - including tab
expansion (with a peculiarity). This is only for an application which is
deliberately hosting its own runspace and explicitly exposing certain objects
as PS variables.

Regular PS Remoting is for opening remote consoles, while PowerShellTunnel
tries to fill a gap, it is for connecting to an existing runspace hosted by
your app. PowerShellTunnel includes examples of how to do this and
documentation on code gallery site. WCF is used so in theory any distance to
the app is doable.

Have a go! It could be useful (with care) for diagnosis, testing, or any
kind of general-purpose application control. Let me know if there are more
elegant ways to do the same thing. The source code on code gallery is
functional but I imagine that people might want to take their own copy and
evolve it to their own ends.

Cheers,
-Matthew Hobbs

Matthew Hobbs wrote: Thanks for sharing! Something else to try out!

Marco