Dashboard in Dashboard : Techdays, Blacklight, new PoshBoard version

I’ll present next week a session on Powershell adn PoshBoard at the French Techdays 2009. I’ll talk about the last development of PoshBoard and new features.

More info here

What is scheduled ?

Creation from scratch of a dashboard page on Active Directory, Exchange and Windows 2008, in 10 minutes

PowerShell and webservices : how to use powershell directly from within Silverlight control in PoshBoard ?

New widgets based on the great Blacklight controls :

Yes, this is dashboard in dashboard :)

We’ll discover how to build the widget above in only 4 lines of PowerShell code.

This new version of poshboard will be available just after at codeplex, and several videos in english will be published on how to use, build and share widgets/pages with the coming PoshBoard 1.0 !

More news after the Techdays ;)

PoshBoard quick installation

You'll find below the steps required to build and test Poshboard on a fresh OS (XP/Vista/2003/2008...) :

1) Install PowerShell here

2) Install Silverlight 2 Client here

3) Install Web developper Express 2008 SP1 with SQL EXPRESS 2008 options here

4) Install Silverlight tools here

5) Download and install AgDatagrid here

6) Download poshboard 0.3.5 or above here

7) Download visifire 2.05 or above, copy "SLVisifire.Charts.dll" and "visifire2.js" in the dropthings/xapfiles folder of poshboard here

8) Open the project in web developper express (poshboard/dropthings.sln), build and test !

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.

PowerShellPlus Profesionnal for free ? listen to PowerScripting Podcast !

There's always great news and tips in the PowerScripting Podcast, this time there's a great deal : if you follow the link provided in the 40th edition, you'll be able to get a FREE licence of PowerShellPlus !

Just on thing to do : go to PowerScripting Podcast site, listen to this great talk-show on PowerShell, and follow the link to PowerShellPlus Beta : once it's available, you'll get your free licence !

PoshBoard installation guide available

A quick note to tell you that the Installation Guide for PoshBoard is now available here.

You'll learn step by step how to use the source with visual studio/web express and how to publish it on your server/workstation.

Update : now the user guide explains how to use every widgets !

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 !