With PowerShell Pro Tools 4.5.0, you can now take advantage of the Avalonia project in PowerShell Core. Avalonia is a WPF-inspired cross-platform XAML-based UI framework providing a flexible styling system and supporting a wide range of
A bill-of-materials, in terms of software, was a new term for me up until recently. The idea is that you can collect all dependencies of your software product and do a security as well as a legal audit of those
In my last post, I went over some of the tooling I’m using to develop my first software offering completely on my own. One of those tools is the Google Analytics Measurement Protocol. Like many website owners, I
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
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
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.
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.
Create an InstallFolder variable and populate it with what you want to be
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
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
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
Recently, I installed Visual Studio 2017 RC. This also installed the latest version of .NET Core. This also meant I started to run into the error “No executable found matching command dotnet-projectmodel-server” when opening .NET Core projects in Visual Studio 2015.