Happy new year !

Many good things for the French MS TechDays 2010 in february !

An updated version of PoshBoard 2.5 is available on Codeplex . It includes bug fixes requested by different users (thanks to all !)

Change Log :

[FIXED] When saving a script, page was not refreshed until user press F5. Now when a page is changed, the config is reloaded

[ADDED] -Expand property handler for AgDatagrid : if -Expand is specified with out-pbdatagrid, groupby will be expanded by default

[ADDED] Security check when user try to go to the config page from URL without having the rights to do so.

[FIXED] -MaxColumns -MaxRows of dashboard Added again

[ADDED] When user isn't a SuperAdmin, Impersonate/Admin info visibility set to collapsed

[FIXED] Background/foreground color handles for textbox / textblock

[ADDED] PowerShell solution

[FIXED] ChartSerie LineStyle LineThickness

[FIXED] LiveUpdate visibility for users based on Page configuration

PoshBoard 2.5 is now available on codeplex

PoshBoard 2.5 is now out and you can try it here. Below is a video introduction that presents the new GUI and general feeling of this new version.

(Use "Go Full Screen" on the bottom right)

PoshBoard 2.5 Look'n'Feel from Antoine Habert on Vimeo.

PoshBoard 2.5 is an "under the hood" refactoring of PoshBoard that prepares the way for the next major new release.

The next release will introduce several important new features and innovative designs.

PoshBoard 3.0 will be available in 2 months and showed at the next Microsoft French Techdays in February !

What's new in the 2.5 release ?

First thing : I've rebuild the code with a more object oriented approach  (PoshBoard <2.5 was clearly a Scripting Guy development :) ). It will be easier for me with this new architecture to adapt the new features that I want to put in the dashboard.

PoshBoard 2.5 is compatible with previous version scripts. I didn't change the PowerShell snapin.

here's the new stuffs :

• New "navigation" Silverlight style
• New Object oriented architecture in source code
• A lot of refactoring, reducing the size and improving the global speed of the portal
• Now entirely based on Silverlight : no more asp.net component except silverlight loader and WCF service
• Wider event handling (now nearly every control are possible target for PBEvents)
• Super Admins management integrated in the config menu
• Reworked a bit the Page manager with subtle changes

In this last post on PoshBoard 2 Eventing, we'll learn how to reuse code sections to feed a -Script parameter of a PBEvent.

In the previous post, we've seen basic events creation, and -script -target parameters. In this article, we will study the parameter called -References and different ways to set Tartget/Reference attributes.

I've posted a new update for PoshBoard 2.0. This update is the last update (except bugfixes) for the 2.0 release.

I've added several enhancements to the PoshBoard cmdlets.

PBEvent Target, References : PSObject or String attributes

You can now specify either string or PSObject (PBElement) as attribute for Target and references properties of PBEvent (with New-PBEvent or Add-PBEvent)

This is useful when you creates controls on the fly without using a variable. Now these 2 cmdlets check if these attributes are PSObjects or strings. If an  attribute is a PSObject, it will retrieve the Name property of the corresponding PBElement.

Example with PSObject attributes

$grid = new-pbgrid -columns ("2*","1*") -Rows ("1*",30)
$combo = new-pbComboBox -name "input" -items ("Column","Bar","Pie","Line") -column 0 -row 1 -fontsize 12
$chart = new-pbchart -name MyChart -Title MyChart -Theme Theme3 -columnspan 2
$button = new-pbbutton -name CreateChart -column 1 -columnspan 2 -text "Press Me"  -fontsize 14 -row 1
add-pbevent -inputobject $button -name click -script "#chart#" -target $chart -references $combo
add-pbitem $grid $combo,$button,$chart

You see here that I specify my PBElement objects as attribute for Target and references parameters

Example with String attributes

$grid = new-pbgrid -columns ("2*","1*") -Rows ("1*",30)
add-pbitem $grid (new-pbComboBox -name "input" -items ("Column","Bar","Pie","Line") -column 0 -row 1 -fontsize 12)
add-pbitem $grid (new-pbchart -name MyChart -Title MyChart -Theme Theme3 -columnspan 2)
 
$button = new-pbbutton -name CreateChart -column 1 -columnspan 2 -text "Press Me"  -fontsize 14 -row 1
add-pbevent -inputobject $button -name click -script "#chart#" -target MyChart -references input
add-pbitem $grid $button
$grid

Here I use only the Name of each controls for target and references parameters

Click, SelectionChanged parameters

I added events parameters for PBButton, PBListBox and PBComboBox. This parameters let you add directly your event when you set up your control.

Example with a button :

$grid = new-pbgrid -columns ("2*","1*") -Rows ("1*",30)
add-pbitem $grid (new-pbComboBox -name "input" -items ("Column","Bar","Pie","Line") -column 0 -row 1 -fontsize 12)
add-pbitem $grid (new-pbchart -name MyChart -Title MyChart -Theme Theme3 -columnspan 2)
 
add-pbitem $grid (new-pbbutton -name CreateChart -column 1 -columnspan 2 -text "Press Me"  -fontsize 14 -row 1 -click (
new-pbevent -name click -script $myscript -target MyChart -references input))
$grid

PBButton -LivePlay parameter

I changed the -LiveUpdate parameter from a Boolean to a Switch parameter. Now you only need to set -LivePlay to set the Live Update mode for the button

I'm working on a "RefreshTime" parameter that will be added in PoshBoard 2.1. This parameter will let you specify the refresh rate for a script when a "LivePlay" button is pressed.

Comments welcomed in the forum ;)

antoine

I released today a new update for both poshBoard.Web and Snapin.

The main reason is the need for a little change in PBEvent model in order to support target as PBElement object, and no more name as string. This is more in line with other PBEvent parameter (this is this model that is presented in the Event tutorials).

I corrected some bugs with the portal, and added new parameters for New-PBDatagrid : now you can add the columns of the datagrid directly with new-pbdatagrid

PoshBoard binds events to different kinds of controls, these events transform Silvelright items on your page via PowerShell script result...

An updated release is available for both PoshBoard.Web and PoshBoard.Snapin

Two new cmdlets for Charting, and a new parameter for PBDataGrid.

get-process|select -first 20|out-pbchart handles -dpnames ProcessName -Name "Handles"

get-process|sort handles -descending|out-pbchart handles,npm,CPU -RenderAs Area,Bar,Line -dpnames ProcessName

$Proc = gwmi Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Processor |where{$_.name -eq "_total"}
$proc|out-pbchart PercentProcessortime,PercentIdleTime -renderAs StackedColumn -DPNames "CPU" -name CPU -legends $true

$Proc = gwmi Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Processor |where{$_.name -eq "_total"}
$chart = new-pbchart -Name "mychart" -Theme Theme3
$Chart.ChartSeries.Add(($proc|Out-PBChartserie PercentProcessorTime -RenderAs column -DPNames "ProcessName"))
$Chart.ChartSeries.Add(($proc|Out-PBChartserie PercentIdleTime -RenderAs column -DPNames "ProcessName"))
$chart

get-service|out-pbdatagrid -columnswidth 150

get-service|Out-PBDatagrid Name,CanStop,CanShutDown,Status,DisplayName -ColumnsWidth 200,70,105,60,300