Can PowerShell be used as code behind for WPF

Question

We can use [Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load to load XAML file in PowerShell, but is there some way to specify some PowerShell script as code behind?

Answer 1

Now there is also WPK, in the PowerShellPack which makes creating WPF UI in PowerShell extremely straightforward and fun.

Answer 2

PowerShell can be used to provide functionality in a WPF application. Check out these great blog posts regarding using PowerShell and WPF...

HuddledMasses.Org - PowerBoots - a WPF GUI Toolkit for PowerShell

PowerBoots - Shoes for PowerShell

PowerBoots - Loading XAML Windows in PowerShell 1.0 or 2.0

Windows PowerShell Team Blog

http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/archive/2008/05/25/powershell-and-wpf-wtf.aspx

WPF & PowerShell – Part 1 ( Hello World & Welcome to the Week of WPF )

WPF & PowerShell – Part 2 (Exploring WPF (and the rest of .NET) with Scripts)

WPF & PowerShell -- Part 3 (Handling Events)

WPF & PowerShell -- Part 4 (XAML & Show-Control)

WPF & PowerShell - Part 5 ( Using WPF & PowerShell Modules)

WPF & PowerShell - Part 6 (Running Functions in the Background)

WPF & PowerShell - Part 7 (Sharing Hosts)

Answer 3

While I don't know for sure, I would guess not. Given that Visual Studio only exposes C# and VB as languages to use to build WPF applications, that implies that work needs to be done at the tool level in order to add support for WPF to a language. Since a .NET language doesn't get WPF support "for free", it's doubtful that PowerShell has the ability to be the code behind for a WPF UI.

Answer 4

The current place to look at is http://showui.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets.

Sorry Show-UI has no release yet. It is the successor to PowerBoots and WPK.