http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/09/19/draw-boxes-and-lines-in-the-windows-powershell-console-host.aspxSummary : Microsoft MVP Sean Kearney shows how to draw boxes and lines in the Windows PowerShell console while scripting three reusable functions. Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. Just when I thought it was safe to open my email, I get aen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/09/19/draw-boxes-and-lines-in-the-windows-powershell-console-host.aspx#3356657Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:20:33 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3356657Sean Kearney<p>Joel</p> <p>I was feeling &quot;Really Retro&quot; that day :)</p> <p>I wanted &quot;Pure Ascii&quot; not that polluted stuff :P</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3356657" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/09/19/draw-boxes-and-lines-in-the-windows-powershell-console-host.aspx#3356469Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:41:32 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3356469Joel "Jaykul" Bennett<p>Aww.... don&#39;t draw boxes with alphanumeric characters when you&#39;ve got the whole ANSI/ASCII character set, Sean! :) That&#39;s what box characters are made for! Imagine how you&#39;d feel if we tried to make PowerShell songs without you! ;-)</p> <p>(fye: unicode characters in the range 9472..9575)</p> <p>On another note, for stuff like drawing boxes, you should at least consider the advanced $Host.UI.RawUI.SetBufferContents and GetBufferContents ... check out <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://poshcode.org/2238">http://poshcode.org/2238</a> for some a couple scenarios involving boxes with text inside them and inline scrolling/prompting (I just posted it, but it&#39;s just an improvement over an old script that was up there).</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3356469" width="1" height="1">