{"id":6879,"date":"2019-10-28T13:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/?p=6879"},"modified":"2020-10-27T08:43:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T12:43:54","slug":"the-powershell-magic-8-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdhitsolutions.com\/blog\/powershell\/6879\/the-powershell-magic-8-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"The PowerShell Magic 8 Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

[I updated this article to reflect minor changes in the code and the release of PowerShell 7. This article was originally published 28 October, 2019<\/em>].<\/p>\n

Last year I shared some PowerShell code on Twitter about this time of year. I have a short script that uses Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to create a spooky graphical prompt that allows you to ask questions of a Magic 8 Ball (this name may be trademarked or otherwise protected). For those of you who may not be familiar with it, this is a toy shaped like a giant 8 ball from a billiards game. You ask a question aloud, shake the ball, and look at the bottom to get an answer. I did the same thing with PowerShell.<\/p>\n

\"8balloracle-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"8balloracle-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Nothing more than a little harmless fun. Although the code demonstrates how easy it is to put together a simple WPF form. The script will also run in PowerShell Core on a Windows platform<\/p>\n

You can find the code on my GitHub account as a gist<\/a>.<\/p>\n