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Sajal Debnath
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Sajal Debnath

Sajal Debnath is a highly certified Cloud computing technocrat with more than 12 years of experience in virtualized data center design, Cloud computing, and BC/DR solutions. He is an EMCISA, VCAP-DCD/DCA, VCAP-CID/CIA, RHCE 4/5/6, RHCVA, Openstack, and ITIL certified person. He is presently associated with VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd. as a senior system engineer. Previously, he worked with France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, and many more in multiple roles. He is involved in prestigious Indian government projects, such as National Cloud, Digital Locker, and so on.
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Building a GUI using Windows Forms


The first option that we will discuss is Windows Forms. To utilize Windows Forms, we first need to load the respective assemblies. We can load the assemblies by using the following techniques:

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName
("System.Drawing")
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName
("System.Windows.Forms")

Alternatively, we can use the following technique:

Add-Type -AssemblyNameSystem.Windows.Forms
Add-Type -AssemblyNameSystem.Drawing

Once the assemblies are loaded, we need to load the visual styles method as well. We can load the module by using the following method:

[void] [System.Windows.Forms.Application]::EnableVisualStyles()

I prefer using [void] to add the assemblies because it would suppress unnecessary text output. For the rest of the examples, we will use the following three lines to load the assemblies and the method:

[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName
("System.Drawing")  
[void][System.Reflection...
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Sajal Debnath is a highly certified Cloud computing technocrat with more than 12 years of experience in virtualized data center design, Cloud computing, and BC/DR solutions. He is an EMCISA, VCAP-DCD/DCA, VCAP-CID/CIA, RHCE 4/5/6, RHCVA, Openstack, and ITIL certified person. He is presently associated with VMware Software India Pvt. Ltd. as a senior system engineer. Previously, he worked with France Telecom, Hewlett Packard, and many more in multiple roles. He is involved in prestigious Indian government projects, such as National Cloud, Digital Locker, and so on.
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