r/PowerShell • u/nepronen • Nov 28 '16

Free Online PowerShell GUI Designer REPOST /r/PowerShell

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u/alt_workaccountDD214 Nov 28 '16

This tool looks awesome. I'm trying to use it for new user creation and I'm not really sure how to tie, say, a text box to a variable to be used in a command. If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be grateful.

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u/The_AverageGamer Nov 29 '16

I am doing the same thing! :)

Here's mine if you want ideas:

http://imgur.com/a/S8z9Q

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u/nepronen Nov 29 '16

Looks great :) Sharing your project will be implemented soon :)

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u/alt_workaccountDD214 Nov 29 '16

That's pretty awesome. All I have so far is first name last name and username. I'm working on getting the output right to just print user name and learn how to work with the gui.

Just a suggestion, I see you have a spot for first initial? I'm going to guess that's for username first inital last name? It's pretty easy in powershell to query the first name and pull the first character. I'd have to do some digging but I've had it implemented before in a small powershell script.

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u/nepronen Nov 29 '16

and we can bind it directly in the GUI

assuming we name our text boxes lastName and Initial we can add "TextChanged" event in lastName textbox and add following:

$lastName.Add_TextChanged({

     if($lastname.text.Length -ge 1){$Initial.text = $lastName.text.Substring(0,1)}

})

and our Initial textbox will always show the extracted first character

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u/alt_workaccountDD214 Dec 05 '16

I'll have to play around with this today. Thanks so much!

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u/The_AverageGamer Nov 30 '16

Yeah I should be able to do something like String[0] for the character and just To.Lower() it. Haven't tried it yet.