Recently, I released the first version of the PowerShell Pro Tools PowerShell module to the PowerShell gallery. The module contains a PowerShell cmdlet wrapper around PSPack.exe that is capable of packaging scripts into executables. This version of PSPack.exe also supports the ability to bundle multiple PS1 files into a single PS1 file. In this post [...]
In the latest version of PowerShell Pro Tools for Visual Studio, I released the first version of WPF Designer support for PowerShell projects. In this post, we will look at the steps required to create a new WPF window and hook up a button click event. Installing the necessary tools You will need the following: [...]
I recently released the first version of PowerShell Pro Tools for Visual Studio 2017. The first version provides only one feature; Windows Forms designer support. In this post we will go over how to create a Windows Form using PowerShell. Installing the necessary tools You will need the following: Visual Studio 2017 (Any edition, Community edition) PowerShell Tools [...]
TLDR: Check out the very early beta of my new PowerShell Pro Tools for VS 2017 that contains a PowerShell form designer. Available on the Marketplace. I have been working on PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio, formerly PowerGUI VSX, for almost 7 years. My first checkin to CodePlex (RIP), was on June 12, 2010. A lot [...]
Here is the scaffolding to create a WiX installer that uses a Burn bootstrapper that can support upgrading while allowing the user to change to a new installation directory. Burn Create an InstallFolder variable and populate it with what you want to be your default installation directory. [crayon-5954d7f4b41fd865491801/] Pass your InstallFolder variable to your MSI package. [...]
I recently added support to the CodeConverter.net SDK to convert PowerShell to C#. This was a very similar process to converting C# to PowerShell. The implementation walks the PowerShell AST, produces a common AST and then is fed into the C# code writer to output C# code. The limitation of straight AST translation AST translation [...]
XUnit, like a lot of other testing frameworks, allows for creating test cases, or theories in XUnit terms, based on test data rather than static tests alone. With the CodeConverter.NET tests, I decided to generate the test cases based on input files and output files. The input files contain C# code and the output files [...]
If you are still using the .NET Core preview tooling in Visual Studio 2015, you likely have run into the issue where you attempt to reference a .NET Framework project in a .NET Core project and have seen the error "Unable to find version 'x' or package 'y'" sporadically. To work around the issue, the best fix [...]
The last couple of days I’ve been busy working on CodeConverter.NET. Here are some updates. Simplified Site When I first conceived of CodeConverter.NET, I thought of making it a community curated site where not only automated conversions would happen but also users could add conversions or improve automated ones. I realized that this was a [...]
Getting Started with GitHub Pages GitHub Pages allow you to generate a website for yourself, an organization or a project based on markdown files stored in a repository. Pages is based on Jekyll and comes with a couple standard themes. Jekyll creates static pages so there is no need to update a database or anything. [...]
