PowerShell scripting tools/resources worth paying for?

Yo if it's free though no need to ask now though right?

UD and Webjea look to be to very different solutions. UD is used to build custom dashboards, as well as more robust apps to handle various admin tasks, and webjea seems to be a web based script repo that you can limit access for running various scripts.

I’ve never used webjea so that’s just based off of the readme I quickly skimmed. UD is a beast, even if you’re just using the free community version.

Powershell Studio is easy for dragging and dropping controls onto a page to make an application. However I personally feel your word phenomenal should be saved for https://uddesigner.azurewebsites.net/home this in essance allows you to do what powershell studio does but in a web browser!

You have to agree with my statement that everything you design in Powershell Studio looks out-dated. Like it was built for windows 95.

I did this dashboard ages ago to help the stock team manage stock better, it shows past and future orders, and is displayed in a Nivo heatmap:- https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com/standard11/uploads/universaldashboard/original/1X/2f4f649139737d93d4ff14998f6881bae59a216e.gif

There is no way on planet earth I could even come close to doing something like this in Powershell Studio, it would be impossible!

Thats why I am a Universal Dashboard user. I can supply any solution to any team in the business I work for, even if it's not IT related!

Hey man, just trying to leave my first honest review. Was pretty late when I wrote this, so just got typing, and wasn't thinking to much about my English grammatical approach.

Brand-new to reddit, so new I didn't even know about the 24 hour rule and saw my post get deleted numerous times. Now it is stamped on this site, so will edit it now for paragraphs. Thanks for the input

Boom! Paragraphed it up, and corrected some typos. Thanks Lee.

Here's a basic one:

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName('presentationframework')
[xml]$XAML = @'
<Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
        xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
        Title="PowerShell Form" Height="310" Width="350" ResizeMode="NoResize">
    <Grid Margin="0,0,0,0">
        <GroupBox Header="General" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="225" Margin="10,10,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="320">
            <Grid HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="206" Margin="0,0,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="320">
                <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                    <ColumnDefinition Width="60*"/>
                    <ColumnDefinition Width="250*"/>
                </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
                <Label Content="Field #1:" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,7,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="26" Width="93"/>
                <Label Content="Field #2:" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,35,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="26" Width="93"/>
                <Label Content="Field #3:" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,65,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="26" Width="93"/>
                <Label Content="Field #4:" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,93,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="26" Width="93"/>
                <Label Content="Field #5:" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,121,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="26" Width="93"/>
                <Label Content="Field #6:" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,149,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="26" Width="93"/>
                <Label Content="Field #7:" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="0,180,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="26" Width="93"/>
                <TextBox Name="f1" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="23" Margin="10,10,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="229" Grid.Column="1"/>
                <ComboBox Name="f2" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="23" Margin="10,38,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="229" Grid.Column="1">
                    <ListBoxItem>Test 1</ListBoxItem>
                    <ListBoxItem>Test 2</ListBoxItem>
                    <ListBoxItem>Test 3</ListBoxItem>
                </ComboBox>
                <TextBox Name="f3" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="23" Margin="10,66,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="229" Grid.Column="1"/>
                <TextBox Name="f4" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="23" Margin="10,96,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="229" Grid.Column="1"/>
                <TextBox Name="f5" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="23" Margin="10,124,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="229" Grid.Column="1"/>
                <TextBox Name="f6" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="23" Margin="10,152,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="229" Grid.Column="1"/>
                <TextBox Name="f7" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="23" Margin="10,180,0,0" TextWrapping="Wrap" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="229" Grid.Column="1"/>
            </Grid>
        </GroupBox>
        <Button Name="Clear" Content="Clear Form" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="10,240,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="90" Height="30" RenderTransformOrigin="0.522,0.733"/>
        <Button Name="Submit" Content="Submit" Margin="234,240,12,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Height="30"/>
    </Grid>
</Window>
'@

$reader=(New-Object System.Xml.XmlNodeReader $xaml) 
try{$Form=[Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load( $reader )}
catch{Write-Host "Unable to load Windows.Markup.XamlReader."; break}
$xaml.SelectNodes("//*[@Name]") | %{Set-Variable -Name ($_.Name) -Value $Form.FindName($_.Name)}

$Clear.add_Click({
    Clear-Form
})

function Clear-Form {
    $fields = @("f1","f2","f3","f4","f5","f6","f7")
    foreach ($field in $fields) {
        $control = $Form.FindName($field)
        switch ($control.GetType()) {
            "System.Windows.Controls.TextBox" { $control.Clear() }
            "System.Windows.Controls.ComboBox" { $control.SelectedIndex = -1 }
            DEFAULT { write-host "unknown control" }
        }
    }
}

$Form.ShowDialog() | Out-Null

howdy psdevuk,

dude ... you are spamming the thread. i entirely understand enthusiasm ... but you are somewhat overdoing it. if you keep it up, folks will start automatically ignoring you. [sigh ...]

please, make a very few posts about something in any given thread. plus, of course, a detailed comparison would make a nifty blog post ... [grin]

take care,
lee

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Convert yourself, become a Universal Dashboard user and show your company what they should have paid for instead, and would have saved a whole lot of money too!

The subscription is only for major update versions anyway

Hehe oké thanks for letting me know.

I will check it out... again...

For someone considering getting into vscode and currently use isesteroids, can you clue me in to these extensions you speak of? What extensions do you recommend?

Like the other guy said, what extensions?

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I did love Powershell Studio, until I started using Universal Dashboard...Now I am converting all my Sapien executables to dashboards.

Universal Dashboard...it looks better, runs better, less code to maintain, so much more flexible with what you can do compared to any other Powershell tool out there. I use VS Code now to do all my powershell work in.

If you do not believe me there is even a FREE yes FREE universal dashboard community edition.

I promise you that using universal dashboard will bring a whole new bag of tricks, and amazing GUI for your end-users