Try PowerShell

Project Description
Try PowerShell is an interactive PowerShell tutorial created with PowerShell using WPF and PowerBoots.

An interactive PowerShell interpreter that runs in WPF.

For PowerShell Users

• Easily try out PowerShell commands immediately, no typing
• Use the find to search for particular sections and fire off commands
• Click a PS> button to load an example, then edit it and run it

Download

TryPowerShell Download
Then run .\TryPowerShell.ps1

PowerShell Developers/Authors

October 25, 2009

• Support added to load PowerShell Snap-ins via the Add-PSSnapin cmdlet. Like:
  • IIS
  • SQL
  • Exchange
  • SharePoint 2010
  • OpsMgr 2007
  • PowerGadgets
  • /n software

• Provide a written guide for your scripts and let users run them directly from the documentation
• Great example of PowerShell, PowerBoots and WPF.
  • Using a FlowDocument,
  • Several controls
  • Hyperlinks
  • Executing PowerShell code in a PowerShell app using Invoke-Expression

ToDo

• Improve start up time
• Add markup for bold, italic and lists
• Implement code colorization
• Come up with a Table of Contents
• Add more content