The PowerShell blogs have been alive with some really cool GUI techniques that use WPF and XAML in combination with a new feature of the new PowerShell CTP2 release which allows it to run in STA mode. The only problem I have is that PowerShell Plus, my longtime favorite way to run PowerShell, did not support this feature.  That meant if I wanted to play with XAML in PowerShell, I would have to use boring old powershell.exe. 

So I logged a feature request with the PS+ devs and lo and behold just a few days later, here’s a new beta build with STA support added!  To use STA, you just add a “-sta” parameter to the shortcut which starts PS+. 

Here’s a shot of it in action using Joel Bennet’s clock script.