Silverlight 3.0 Multitouch PoshBoard demo !

PoshBoard 3.0 will support Silverlight 3.0 multiTouch feature, and you'll be able to try it live at the next French MS TechDays in february.

Infos & vidéo here

Poshboard v1 : Technical preview 1

Poshboard v1 development is going well and the the first release should be available in june. 

Several Beta will be available in the meantime, I will also publish "technical preview" videos before this release.

Here is a first video presenting you different topics (go fullscreen for HD) :

I'll present the following functionnalities :

1) "Live update" with WCF push server mode.

Poshboard now use the polling duplex feature of WCF that let us refresh dynamically script results in widgets (string output, charts, datagrids...). 

2) Poshboard Tester widget

This widget use this push server mode et let you test your scripts. You'll see different examples and you'll discover a first preview of statistic mode.

3) Poshboard Powershell Snapin : Chart object

Poshboard will provide several PowerShell snapins to enhance the experience. This first series of cmdlets let you design and debug your charts widgets, and permit widget objet creation directly in a standard PowerShell console. Pipeline, objet visualization will ease the development process.

Feel free to share your feelings and suggestions on the Poshboard Forum ! Your feedback will help me finalize the portal ;)

PoshBoard v0.3.5 Released ! Compatible with Silverlight 2.0 Final

Hi,

Here is my first good resolution for 2009 : 

Releasing a new version of PoshBoard !

PoshBoard v0.3.5 is now available at codeplex just here

What's New ?

• -PoshBoard is now fully compatible with silverlight 2.0 Final
• -Updated to last version of AgDatagrid (December 2008 release) and visifire (2.0.5 Beta) 
• -BugFix in datagrid generation
• -New edit feature for visifire charts : you can now select the type of charts and define Charts name in the Edit Section. 

important : to draw a chart, you now need to pass one or several hashtables to the built-in "out-visifire" function 

out-visifire($myHashTable)

or

out-visifire($myHashTable1,$MyHashTable2)

• -The user guide is updated with last information to ease your installation : read it carefully
  

Another good news : great support for poshboard !

Jeffrey Snover (Creator of PowerShell) has posted two really cool articles about PoshBoard and HashTable generation on the PowerShell Team Blog : you can read them here and here.

Thank you Jeffrey for your support on this project !

Happy new Year to all of you !

New version of PoshBoard coming soon !

Some news about PoshBaord :

Development is ongoing of course ! :), a bit delayed by professionnal constraints.

With the release of Silverlight 2.0 and upcoming Dropthings 1.8.0, a new version of PoshBoard will be available shortly :

So, what's coming ?

Update with Silverlight 2.0 and Dropthings 1.8.0, with addional features :

• You'll be able to create dynamic widgets based on ironPyhon ! on the fly customisation with ironpython code or with a little gadget designer !
• You'll be able to import and export custom widgets ! We'll be able to share widgets with the community
• New widgets based on Silverlight control toolkits

Your inputs, suggestions are as always very usefull, please give me your feedback !

News coming soon, stay tuned.

PoshBoard 0.3 is out !

Update : sources are now available at codeplex, user guide to follow...

Coding can be really, really fun ! all is getting nicely and I'm pleased to present you the version 0.3.0 of PoshBoard on Codeplex.

Download it here!

What's New ?

1. Based on Dropthings 1.7.0 : database is now included in the project, using SQL 2005 Express is now easy !
2. Added a Silverlight Datagrid widget
3. Added a DevExpress AgDatagrid widget (great open source silverlight control)
4. Added PowerShell standard output

What's missing ?

Well, a lot of things are coming ! first the source code.. but others widgets are ready to strike. I'm now working on cleaning up the code, making more error handling in PowerShell, Transform the Visifire PowerShell code...

...there's some nice surprises coming soon, stay tuned to my blog for more info !

How to use it ?

(Updated) now a user guide is available at codeplex ! Read it to learn how tu install/configure the website or Visual studio project (with visual and visual express), and how to use the widgets !

PoshBoard second video : Adding DataGrid to the mix !

French version here

Here is a second video on PoshBoard, my open source IT web portal project. In this one you'll find some news on the upcoming 0.3 version of Poshboard (available here soon at codeplex) :

Launch and click on the HD icon, then go full screen (or click here where you can download it), I strongly recommend it cause my recording did some strange rescaling this time ! :)

PoshBoard 2nd video : new widgets, new Dropthings GUI... from pilosite on Vimeo.

What's up ?

New widgets

- Silverlight DataGrid : a direct path from Powershell to Silverlight 2 Datagrid
- AgDatagrid from Developper Express : see how good a pro Silverlight Datagrid can be (Oh, it's free and open source... Great !)
- PowerShell standard Output : launch PowerShell script and get console output.

New front-end :

Discover the brand new dropthings version used in PoshBoard : custom columns layouts in action, new GUI... Dropthings is definitely an impressive Ajax/ASP.NET project !

A tutorial is coming explaining everything about PoshBoard (how to install It ? prerequisite for publishing ? Visual Studio configuration ? )

Feel free to ask questions in the comments, and please don't hesitate to use Issue tracker / discussion in Codeplex to help me improve PoshBoard !

Hope you like this new one ;)

PowerShell Dashboard : ASP.NET, Silverlight and PowerShell in a shaker !

Update : People asked me a preview of Poshboard to play with it : so be it ! A preview is now available on codeplex here, or follow this link : http://www.codeplex.com/poshboard

Here's a little video of my "coming soon" open source project called "PowerShell Dashboard" (PoshBoard for friends). This project will be available soon on the open source forge of my company Octo Technology.

The goal of this project is to deliver modular web portal based on PowerShell. The idea is to use Web GUI like igoogle, PageFlakes or Netvibes, for IT Admin and infrastructure management.

This will let you easely build infrastructure dashboards without the need to code in ASP.NET / AJAX / C# or other compiled language :

All you need to know is scripting
All you need to have is imagination.
;)

This project is based on Dropthings, a great ASP.NET/AJAX open source project by Omar Al Zabir, turned to an intranet project.

For this first teaser, I show you a first widget to generate Silverlight charts directly fom PowerShell scripts. I've used Chart generation (Column, pie...) with the great Silverlight charting library VISIFIRE (free and open source too)

This first demonstation presents the general concept of the web portal. It'll be freely available in the coming weeks. Then I'll propose several componants and innovations that will let you have much fun with PowerShell development ! :)

Here is the vidéo :

PowerShell Dashboard Web Portal Presentation from pilosite on Vimeo.

This video is in the HD Ready Format (1280x720), I strongly recommand you to click on the HD icon after launching the video to see it in full resolution (you can then go to full screen).

You can also click here and select full screen. Last but not least, you can also directly download it from this link !

Oh, by the way, forgive my exotic english, hope you'll understand everything, I try to do my best ! :)

Questions ? Ideas ? you can contact me by mail by clicking here.

PowerShell mindmap with Silverlight

Michael S. Scherotter gives us on his synergist blog an application that convert MindManager mindmap to Silverlight.

This is really fun to play with, and it gives inspiration on how to bind Silverlight to our day to day work with Infrastructure developpement ! :)

To illustrate this, I've inserted below a Silverlight Control with my personnal bookmarks about PowerShell. Blogger main frame isn't really wide, so please use the "Full screen" button to have a better look at this control. Notes are in French, I'll translate them soon. Links are all operational.

Have fun with Silverlight !