PowerShell and UI elements

Does PowerShell provide, "out of the box", dialog boxes, drop down menus, etc
like full-fledged Windows applications? Or is the interface limited to the
command line?


Thanks,

Bill

Hi bill,

> Does PowerShell provide, "out of the box", dialog boxes, drop down menus, etc
> like full-fledged Windows applications? Or is the interface limited to the
> command line?

PS does not provide any UI widgets but you can use the .NET classes in
the System.Windows.Forms namespace. But IMHO it's a little contradictory
in the context of a command line.
So just to give you a clue:

0:10 >[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Windows.Forms")
0:12 > [Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("Hi bill!")
OK

hth

Max

Bill,

Max has pointed you to the basics of how you can use Windows Forms
from PowerShell scripts (or the command line).

In the other direction, you can create a GUI application to produce
PowerShell commands. The Exchange 2007 team have done that so that the
Exchange Management Console produces PowerShell commands under the
cover.

However, there are no "PowerShell" GUI components out of the box which
is what I think your original question focussed on. So the interface
is essentially the command line and scripts.

Andrew Watt MVP

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:44:02 -0800, bill
<bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Does PowerShell provide, "out of the box", dialog boxes, drop down menus, etc
>like full-fledged Windows applications? Or is the interface limited to the
>command line?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bill