The latest articles on DEV Community by Kenneth Anders (@kenneth_anders_b405932385). https://dev.to/kenneth_anders_b405932385 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4144658%2Fa71a5fd6-fe52-47cc-b5ed-b15792289ee7.png https://dev.to/kenneth_anders_b405932385 en Kenneth Anders Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:40:41 +0000 https://dev.to/kenneth_anders_b405932385/built-a-powershell-native-gui-framework-poshui-2f0f https://dev.to/kenneth_anders_b405932385/built-a-powershell-native-gui-framework-poshui-2f0f <p>Been working on this for a while and finally have a public release worth sharing: <strong>PoshUI</strong>, a GUI framework you build entirely with PowerShell cmdlets — <code>New-UIWindow</code>, <code>Add-UIButton</code>, that kind of thing.</p> <p>The free WPF Community edition targets .NET 4.8 / PowerShell 5.1 with zero external dependencies, so it's usable in OS deployment workflows, not just interactive scripts.</p> <p>Latest release (v1.4.1) added a <strong>Canvas</strong> module — ~85 cmdlets, free-form layout, a workflow engine with retry/timeout/skip/reboot-resume built in, and native tabs/menus/splitters. It's a lot of surface area, dense enough that I've been building Canvas layouts with LLM assistance rather than hand-authoring every cmdlet call.</p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F47to1dwk60wdutdtw0oz.gif" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F47to1dwk60wdutdtw0oz.gif" alt=" " width="600" height="437"></a></p> <p>Repo's open if you want to look under the hood or try it on something of your own: <a href="https://github.com/Kanders-II/PoshUI" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/Kanders-II/PoshUI</a></p> <p>Curious if others building support tooling have hit similar walls putting a GUI on internal scripts — what did you end up doing?</p> dotnet opensource programming showdev