PowerShell GUI with externally managed data

Introduction

This code supports my blog post about "PowerShell GUI scripts with externally managed data".

Folder structure

Since GitHub doesn't support the same layout as Azure DevOps, I created a folder layout that separates the different parts of the application.

GUI

This folder contains the code of the PowerShell GUI script. It also contains a folder with a build script that converts the PowerShell code to an executable. This code is out of scope of the post, but will be described in a following post.

The Application directory contains following directories:

• bin: The PowerShell GUI script
• VSProject: The Visual Studio solution, containing the WPF project with the XAML code for the PowerShell GUI script

Important

Don't forget to update the URL to the data file in the EndpointManager.ps1 file!

data

This folder contains the data file, used as external data for the PowerShell GUI script. Obviously, this should be in a separate repository in your Azure DevOps project to separate it from the code. But since this is not possible in GitHub, I added it to a different folder.

The Build script contains the code that is used during build to update the version in the JSON file.

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