Enable console GUIs with PowerShell

[SteveL-MSFT]

As people are going back to the console for management (instead of primarily GUI), we should support curses to enable console based GUIs.

• out-gridview implementation
• get-member interactive navigation
• get-help -showwindow (for this, my suggestion is to not literally implement showwindow, but to improve console rendering of help with interactive navigation)
• show-command

[iSazonov]

Show-Command?

[Bartolomeus-649]

People are not "going back" to consoles for management! They are forced to use it as there is no real alternatives!

[MaximoTrinidad]

In one of the posted issues: #1808

I mention about using Python Tk with PowerShell. I think Python would be a BIG candidate to help overcoming the missing GUI component in PowerShell.

:)

[iSazonov]

I guess Microsoft love Xamarin 😄

[SQLDBAWithABeard]

Yes to enabling a seperate searchable help window a la -showwindow. That's a useful capability

[megamorf]

Even though I already 👍 this months ago, I wanted to let you guys know that Out-Gridview is a command that lots of people use to quickly preview and filter datasets. It's become a great asset in the typical admin toolbelt :-)

One of my typical use cases is to use Select-FromGridView (which is based on ogv but keeps the objects intact) to manually pick desired items from a collection of VMware Snapshots that I want to delete.

[essentialexch]

I view curses as only a stop-gap measure. OGV based on curses is going to be quite weak in comparison to OGV on FullCLR (and yes, I'm another person that uses OGV extensively when developing solutions to examine result data-sets, even though OGV may not end up in my published solution). Whether it's tk or something else, I believe you will need to pick a true xplat gui solution.