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PowerShell GUI for viewing YouTube Videos of the PowerShell NA Summit 2015
Add-Type -AssemblyName PresentationFrameWork
$MainWindow=@'
<Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Topmost="True"
WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen"
Title="PowerSHell Summit Videos" Height="850" Width="1200">
<Grid>
<Grid.RowDefinitions>
<RowDefinition Height="200"/>
<RowDefinition/>
</Grid.RowDefinitions>
<ListBox x:Name="lstTitles" Grid.Row="0" Margin="3"/>
<WebBrowser x:Name="Viewer" Grid.Row="1" Margin="3"/>
</Grid>
</Window>
'@
$Window = [Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load((New-Object System.Xml.XmlNodeReader ([xml]$MainWindow)))
$lstTitles=$Window.FindName("lstTitles")
$Viewer=$Window.FindName("Viewer")
$lstTitles.ItemsSource = Invoke-RestMethod https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/users/UCqIw7UUwC5fUBFXYX68aMrQ/uploads |
ForEach {
$date=(Get-Date($_.published))
if($date.year -eq 2015 -and $date.Month -eq 4) {$_}
} |
ForEach {
[PSCustomObject][ordered]@{
title=$_.title.'#text'
href=$_.link.href[0]
}
}
$lstTitles.DisplayMemberPath="title"
[void]$lstTitles.Focus()
$lstTitles.add_SelectionChanged({$Viewer.Navigate($lstTitles.SelectedItem.href)})
[void]$Window.ShowDialog()
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Great script, however I got an exception error when trying load XAML on line 21;
I believe I corrected this by turning STA mode on powershell
Powershell.exe -STA

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dfinke commented Apr 21, 2015

Yes you are right. What version of PowerShell are you running?

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