re: Lessons Learned While Writing the PowerShell PoshPAIG Module

Klaus Schulte — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:57:51 GMT

Hi Boe,

GREAT again!

And most of it is something every powershell scripter will stumble upon, sometime sooner or later. So good to deduce from your experience :-)

I hate GUIs and I still can't say anything else! The ease of use comes along with a very expensive programming effort that makes the whole program slow and bulky, after having spent 80% of my time in GUI controls! ( even ShowUI, Powerboots, WPF ... can't take away the pain ).

Apart from that using background jobs is very interesting for a lot of projects ( not only making GUIs more responsive, artifically reanimating them on a regular basis :-(((

Anyway: Thanks again for sharing your great work with us!

Klaus.

re: Lessons Learned While Writing the PowerShell PoshPAIG Module

jrv — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:25:04 GMT

More excellent information. This is going to take a bit of reading.

I wanted to note one thing. If someone at the beta logs could fix teh formatting of code locks it would sure be a big help. When the code is more than a couple of lines it becomes very hard to follow. The whole buch of MS blogs now suffer from this issue.

I have used LiveWriter with a couple of different code controls that do a fair job. I am sure MS can come up with something even better.

Maybe for now just wrap in a styles div that eliminates the double lines or a textarea control.

Here is a simple demo of a block of your code displayed in a simple textarea:

[textarea cols="80" rows="30" style="background-color: lightgray; font: verdana; font-weight:bolder;"]

You can view the result at this link. I just dropped you code into the control and published it.