Poshboard 0.4 video available today

Just a short notice to tell you that the webcast on the Techdays poshboard version is done !

Some video processing and upload on Vimeo is required, so this video should be available today.

edit : The webcast is available here

Back From Techdays 2009

It was a real pleasure to present PoshBoard yesterday : Great room, great public, and nearly none "Demo Effect" bugs :)

You missed this event ?

You want to understand what was said without learning French ?

Don't want to wait for the Techdays webcast ?

You're definitevely Lucky !

I'll post next week an English webcast that present the last version of poshboard with the widgets presented at this Techdays Session. You'll see brand new silverlight widgets in action, learn what "PoshBoard V1" will be like, benefits of PowerShell webservices for Poshboard...

Don't miss this webcast and stay tuned to Devinfra-us !

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 !