Write-Progress & WPK
A nifty trick that you can do in WPK is create a WPF progress bar to show the Write-Progress output from a PowerShell script. I was reminded that people actually wanted to do this when I ran across a question on StackOverflow, and posted this answer.
In case you don’t want to follow the link, here’s a quick script to show progress from a background runspace in WPK. The top half set ups a bunch of data bindings that will bind to whatever DataContext is found, and the second half of the script is a small sample of Write-Progress output.
New-Grid -Columns 2 {
New-TextBlock -Margin 10 -TextWrapping Wrap -ZIndex 1 -HorizontalAlignment Left -FontWeight Bold -FontSize 12 -DataBinding @{
"Text" = "LastProgress.Activity"
}
New-TextBlock -Margin 10 -ZIndex 1 -TextWrapping Wrap -Column 1 -VerticalAlignment Bottom -HorizontalAlignment Right -FontStyle Italic -FontSize 12 -DataBinding @{
"Text" = "LastProgress.StatusDescription"
}
New-ProgressBar -ColumnSpan 2 -MinHeight 250 -Name ProgressPercent -DataBinding @{
"Value" = "LastProgress.PercentComplete"
}
} -DataContext {
Get-PowerShellDataSource -Script {
foreach ($n in 1..100) {
Write-Progress "MajorProgress" "MinorProgress" -PercentComplete $n
Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 250
}
}
} -AsJob
Hope this Helps
James Brundage [MSFT]