Simple Win GUI - Should I try PowerShell or just stick with HTA?

Question

knowing what PowerShell can do on the command line, I never knew how to write graphical interfaces with it. Should I?

Or just go back to the good old HTA / VBScript?

Answer 1

You will definitely get different answers to this depending on the background of the people. I am developing and I will immediately write a GUI using C #. The Visual Studio Form Designer is pretty good and has no equivalent in PowerShell out of the box. And the VS debugger is still much better. However, if you want to delve into this area, you must check out two PowerShell modules to create a GUI through WPF: PowerBoots Jaykul and WPK in PowerShellPack by one of the PowerShell team members. As you will see when you look at the PowerBoots website, you can definitely make a GUI with PowerShell.

Answer 2

I would recommend a simple VB.Net/C# WinForms application.

Answer 3

If you are looking for a Powershell GUI package, I would suggest looking at PrimalForms to quickly prototype your solution.

It has a simple winforms designer based on powershell scripts.