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PowerShell On Steroids
Build Material Design based PowerShell GUI Apps
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Feb 4, 20225 min read
DataGrid with "Gmail-Like" Controls
I really like the Gmail grid style, where the action buttons are part of the row and how they are floating as the mouse hovers over the...
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Dec 18, 20214 min read
The art of Input Validation
One of the most critical foundations of an app's data integrity and consistency is covered in this post: Data input validation. As you've...
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Dec 11, 20213 min read
Filling up some MD forms
Some words on input controls and form layout. Material Design has three flavors of input styles: On all of them you can put a hint, and...
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Dec 9, 20211 min read
Big Gotcha in navigation rail SelectionChanged event
The event that triggers when you change a tab is called 'SelectionChanged'. It is attached to the TabControl UI control. Give a name to...
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Dec 6, 20212 min read
How to add Active Directory's User pic in app
Do you store users' pictures in Active Directory? If you do, there is nothing easier than putting their pictures in your PowerShell app....
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Dec 3, 20212 min read
Raise (Tab) Awareness
Those great looking navigation rails we created, work great as long as your app is simple and contains only the pages you defined in the...
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Dec 3, 20212 min read
Dot-Sourcing reusable PS code
On all of my previous posts, I showed you that the files had common code on their top parts. I said we don't touch those parts usually...
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Dec 1, 20213 min read
Know your elements
How to view the content of a UI element When designing an app, we have to know exactly how every UI element should look like, and respond...
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Nov 28, 20212 min read
Navigation Rail gets an upgrade
How to add both "Hamburger" and "Popup" menus to the Navigation Rail.
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Nov 27, 20212 min read
Navigation Bar in less than 2 minutes
MDIX (Material Design In Xaml) contains a VERY simple yet beautiful looking navigation bar. MD calls it a "Navigation Rail Tab Control"....
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Nov 25, 20213 min read
Data Grid
Learn how to implement Material Design DataGrid on a PowerShell WPF GUI App.
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Nov 24, 20214 min read
C'mon have a snack bar
Use a Snackbar for displaying information to the user
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Nov 23, 20214 min read
Opening and Saving Files
Learn how to use Open and Save MS windows newest dialogs
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Nov 22, 20214 min read
First Window to the (hello) world
First WPF PowerShell Material Design App explained
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Nov 21, 20213 min read
Creating a project skeleton
Unlike C# projects that can live on one VS solution and be "Packed for shipment", In PowerShell we have nothing to compile. It's a...
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Nov 20, 20212 min read
System.Windows.Forms doesn't live here anymore
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step" Lao Tzu So... I'm excited to post my first hands-on piece on a subject I am...
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Nov 19, 20213 min read
How Google's Material Design ended up on PowerShell?
The (in)complete story behind adopting Material Design Style on PowerShell.
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