PowerGUI

[Midas]

In investigating upgrade paths for my squalid scripting abilities, I've been looking into MS Powershell; that's how I came across PowerGUI (http://powergui.org/), a DotNET based "graphical user interface and script editor for Microsoft Windows PowerShell!" that I haven't seen mentioned here at TPFC.

Allegedly, it is portable, but being a DotNET app and the process is a bit convoluted, so I found "Resources & Links" a better place to post about it. Let it be noted that the standard version is freeware, but there's also a paying Pro version -- originally marketed by Quest Software, before it was acquired by Dell.

I couldn't find minimum requirements, besides mentions to DotNET and Powershell.

1. Before you do anything, you'll have to open a Powershell command window and issue the following command:

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Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

(For info on this, see http://www.howtogeek.com/106273/how-to- ... windows-7/)

2. Then you'll have to download the PowerGUI latest version (currently v3.2.0.2237) from http://powergui.org/downloads.jspa. It's a MSI file, double click to install; it takes a while and it maxed my CPU a couple of times.

3. Next, go to http://www.powergui.org/entry.jspa?exte ... goryID=387 and download the 'Add-on.InstallPortable.zip'.

4. There are instructions there, but it is enough to extract the addon anywhere, open the PowerGUI Script Editor, choose menu "File | PowerShell Libraries" and browse for the unpacked addon location to install it and activate it. Following this, a button will appear in the PowerGUI SE toolbar that will allow (fast) copying of the installation to USB or any other folder.

5. You can then uninstall PowerGUI. Whew!

PowerGUI portable will depend on DotNET and Powershell being installed, but supposedly it will work everywhere... it sure seems a lot to do just to replace the ever-present Windows command console and humble Notepad.

[Midas]

PowerGUI (now a Dell freeware) is currently v3.8.0.129 (changelog at http://wiki.powergui.org/index.php/Version/History; download now at http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter ... ui/m/bits/).

A doubt I had about minimum system requirements has now been answered in the FAQ:

The main system requirement is Windows PowerShell 1.0 or 2.0 (which in its turn requires .net framework 2.0).

And a visual tutorial for making a portable PowerGUI is at http://csharpening.net/?p=715.

There's a third party PowerGUI review at http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programmin ... rGUI.shtml.

EDIT: DELL recently dumped most of its software division, but existing PowerGUI info and links can still be found at http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/powergui/...

[webfork]

Sadly no change to PowerGUI but the PowerShell program underneath it just went open source (MIT license), and released for Mac and Linux.

Article: http://www.informationweek.com/devops/p ... id/1326670
Homepage: https://github.com/PowerShell/