Although many Linux developers are only now discovering the combination of a scripting language and a graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit, this sort of development environment is not new. The ...
GUI-based administration might linger for a while, but working from the console prompt is the wave of the future. And that means scripting. The days of GUI-based Windows administration are numbered.
Brien Posey explains why PowerShell timers can cause Windows Forms dashboards to freeze or fail to update, and why keeping GUI scripts responsive requires a different approach to timed events.