Powershell and WPF Treeview - wpf

Question

I'm currently working on a powershell tool where I need to create a gui. It seems that according to my needs I would need to use WPF instead of Windows Form. The treeview control in windows forms doesn't let you customize the treeview items. Here is a sample of what I need :
Basically I would need to add treeviewitems on the fly. According to the nodeLevel, I would need to apply different image and progress bar. I would also need to be able to change the visibility of these controls. And all of these will be accomplished using powershell.
Can someone show me a direction, how should I approach this ? How/where should I start ?

Answer 1

You can use standard XAML for WPF to create window with arbitrary controls, events, styles and so on. Then call XamlReader.Load() to create a WPF Window object and Window.ShowDialog() to show it.
# WPF Window with XAML
[xml]$xaml = #"
<Window
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
x:Name="Window" Title="WPF Window from PowerShell" WindowStartupLocation = "CenterScreen"
Width = "800" Height = "600" ShowInTaskbar = "True">
<TreeView>
<TreeViewItem Header="Group 1">
<TreeViewItem Header="Item 1">
<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
<Image Source="image.png" />
<TextBlock Text="Level 2.0" />
<ProgressBar Minimum="0" Maximum="100" Name="Progress" Width="100" IsIndeterminate="True"/>
<Button>Start</Button>
</StackPanel>
</TreeViewItem>
<TreeViewItem Header="Item 1"></TreeViewItem>
<TreeViewItem Header="Item 1"></TreeViewItem>
</TreeViewItem>
<TreeViewItem Header="Group 2">
<TreeViewItem Header="Item 1"></TreeViewItem>
<TreeViewItem Header="Item 1"></TreeViewItem>
<TreeViewItem Header="Item 1"></TreeViewItem>
</TreeViewItem>
</TreeView>
</Window>
"#
$XmlNodeReader=(New-Object System.Xml.XmlNodeReader $xaml)
$Window=[Windows.Markup.XamlReader]::Load($XmlNodeReader)
$Window.ShowDialog()