By optimizing and mounting the VHDX directly on the host for image capture, the build process no longer needs to boot the VM into WinPE, create SMB network shares, generate temporary local accounts, or rely on complex Hyper-V switch IP configurations. This streamlines the workflow and eliminates multiple networking and permission-related points of failure.
This change also removes the need to generate and attach WinPE capture media. All related parameters (`ShareName`, `Username`, `VMHostIPAddress`, `CreateCaptureMedia`, `CleanupCaptureISO`), UI controls, capture scripts, and documentation references have been removed or updated to reflect the simplified architecture.
- Enables automatic horizontal and vertical scrollbars for ListViews in the UI to improve navigation.
- Introduces functions to dynamically calculate and apply column widths based on the visible content and header text.
- Triggers column auto-resizing across various modules whenever ListView data is updated or refreshed.
- Renames a path normalization function and updates an event handler parameter name for clarity.
Updates the Home page UI to display current build, latest release, and release status. Moves the resources section to the Home page and adds a new section to display the latest GitHub discussions. Add helper functions to query GitHub for the latest release and recent public discussions to keep users informed efficiently.
Wraps the application's content area in a stylized border and introduces a centralized, dynamic page header to provide a more cohesive look.
- Adds `Tag` attributes to navigation list items to define each view's display title
- Implements event handlers to automatically update the header text based on user navigation
- Removes redundant embedded titles from individual content pages to streamline the layouts
Introduces radio buttons to choose between downloading a Windows ESD or providing a custom Windows ISO file, enhancing flexibility for media source selection. Updates configuration handling and event listeners to toggle visibility and appropriately populate combo boxes based on the selected media source.
Transitions the General Build Options, Build USB Drive Options, and Post-Build Cleanup settings panels into Expander controls to improve interface organization and space management. Removes dynamic visibility toggling for the USB settings section from the backend scripts, allowing the expander to remain visible while child settings are controlled by the primary enable checkbox.
Refactors the main window layout to use a sidebar navigation model instead of a standard tab control, improving the overall organization of the application.
Introduces support for the Fluent theme (Light, Dark, and System) for users running PowerShell 7.5+ (.NET 9+), gracefully falling back to standard styling for older versions.
Adds a new Settings page that allows users to configure the application theme and access helpful documentation and repository links.
Standardizes margins, font sizes, and layout choices across all forms to closer match Windows design guidelines.
Updates configuration handling to save and restore user theme preferences.
Updates the FFU UI and orchestration scripts to allow users to specify custom file paths for their Bring Your Own (BYO) app lists, rather than forcing the use of `UserAppList.json` in a specific directory.
Also modifies the orchestration to sync this custom path via `AppInstallConfig.json` so that the runtime orchestration phase resolves the correct file name and path during installation. Refreshes the Apps ISO if the custom BYO app list is updated.
Since Windows 10 is out of support and only allows ESU updates, LTSB/LTSC builds are impacted by this and are unable to be offline serviced.
This commit fixes that by installing the CU in the VM, staging the update in a LTSCUpdate folder in the Apps folder.
Introduces a new parameter to control BITS download priority across the build system and UI, allowing users to optimize transfer speeds when needed.
The feature adds a priority selector to the UI with four options (Foreground, High, Normal, Low) and propagates the selection through the build script and common modules. Priority can be set via UI, command-line parameter, or environment variable, with Normal as the default.
Updates the BITS transfer retry logic to respect the configured priority instead of hardcoding Normal priority, and fixes minor code formatting inconsistencies.
- Enables selecting multiple existing FFU images to include on the deployment USB for easier distribution and testing.
- Adds a UI option with selectable, sortable list from the capture folder, refresh support, and persisted selections.
- Validates that selections exist when the option is enabled to prevent empty runs.
- Supports unattended/CLI flows by prompting early or accepting a preselected list for USB creation; deduplicates and logs chosen files.
- Always includes the just-built (or latest available) FFU as a base.
- Improves no-FFU handling and streamlines multi-FFU selection workflow.
Introduces a new feature, `UseDriversAsPEDrivers`, that allows WinPE drivers to be sourced directly from the main driver repository.
When enabled, the script scans all available drivers, parses their INF files, and copies only the essential driver types (e.g., storage, mouse, keyboard, touchpad, system devices) needed for WinPE. This eliminates the need to maintain a separate, manually curated `PEDrivers` folder.
The UI is updated with a new checkbox that becomes visible when "Copy PE Drivers" is selected, making this a sub-option. Parameter validation is also adjusted to support this new workflow.
Introduces a "Restore Defaults" feature in the UI to reset the environment. This action removes generated configuration files, ISOs, downloaded apps, updates, drivers, and FFUs.
The post-build cleanup logic is refactored from the main build script into a new common function. This new function is used by both the standard build process and the new restore defaults feature, promoting code reuse and simplifying maintenance.
- Implemented Select-VMSwitchFromConfig function to handle VM switch selection based on configuration.
- Enhanced Register-EventHandlers to persist custom VM switch name and IP address when 'Other' is selected.
- Improved user experience by ensuring relevant fields are populated correctly based on user input and configuration settings.
- Introduced a new parameter `MaxUSBDrives` to control the maximum number of USB drives that can be built in parallel, with a default value of 5.
- Updated UI to include a textbox for setting `MaxUSBDrives`.
- Implemented validation to ensure the value is a non-negative integer.
- Adjusted the deployment function to respect the `MaxUSBDrives` limit during USB drive creation.
Introduces multi-selection capabilities to the "Bring Your Own" applications list, allowing users to select and remove multiple applications at once.
This change also adds the ability to edit an existing application's details directly from the UI. The application list view is now dynamically generated to support these new features, including selectable rows.
Key changes:
- Adds "Edit Application" and "Remove Selected" buttons.
- Enables/disables action buttons based on the number of selected items.
- Modifies the "Add Application" form to function as an "Update" form when editing.
- Implements selection via mouse click, checkboxes, and the spacebar.
Removes the log message that is generated when auto-scrolling is enabled. This reduces log spam, as this can be a frequent event.
The message for when a user manually disables auto-scrolling is retained.
Adds standard PowerShell comment-based help blocks (synopsis and description) to all UI and common library script modules (`.psm1`) and the main UI entry point script (`.ps1`).
This improves maintainability and discoverability by documenting the purpose of each script file. Also removes various redundant or commented-out code blocks.
Adds a "Threads" setting to the UI, allowing users to control the throttle limit for parallel tasks like driver and application processing.
This introduces a new textbox in the build options and updates the parallel processing function to use this configurable value instead of a hardcoded one.
Input validation is also added to ensure the threads value is a valid integer and is at least 1. The new setting is integrated into the configuration save/load functionality.
Implements the click handler for the browse button associated with the Office configuration XML file path.
This change enables users to select the configuration file via a file dialog, automatically populating the path into the text field and improving usability.
Improves the user experience in the monitor tab by making the log output autoscroll conditional.
Autoscrolling is now disabled when the user selects a log entry other than the last one, allowing them to inspect previous output without interruption. Selecting the last item in the list re-enables autoscrolling.
Introduces a new "Monitor" tab in the `BuildFFUVM` UI to display live log output from the build process.
When a build is started, the UI now automatically switches to the Monitor tab. It tails the main log file in real-time and displays the content in a list view, which auto-scrolls as new entries appear.
This provides immediate visual feedback on the build progress and any errors without needing to manually open the log file.
Additionally, this change adds a Ctrl+C keyboard shortcut to copy selected log lines from the monitor view to the clipboard.
Implements logic to filter the available Windows architectures based on the selected OS Release, Version, and SKU. This ensures that only valid architecture options are presented to the user.
- Adds a new function to determine the correct architectures for different Windows versions (e.g., Server, Windows 10/11, LTSC editions).
- Wires up event handlers to the Release, Version, and SKU dropdowns to refresh the architecture list when their selection changes.
- Refactors initialization to use this new dynamic logic.
Enhances the modern folder browser to accept and open to a specified initial directory.
This improves the user experience by starting the "Browse for Drivers" dialog in the project's 'Drivers' subfolder, reducing the need for manual navigation. The implementation uses the Win32 API to create a shell item from the initial path and set it as the dialog's starting folder.
Moves the logic for saving and loading configuration files from the main UI script into the `FFUUI.Core.Config` module. This change improves modularity and separation of concerns, making the code easier to maintain.
The main `BuildFFUVM_UI.ps1` script is simplified, with event handlers now calling the new, dedicated functions in the core module to manage configuration state.
Also corrects the path for the `FFUConfig.json` file.
Extracts the driver download implementation from the button click event handler into a new `Invoke-DownloadSelectedDrivers` function.
This change improves code modularity and maintainability by separating the business logic for downloading drivers from the UI event handling code. The event handler is now simplified to a single function call.
Extracts the model fetching and UI update logic from the button's click event handler into a new, reusable `Invoke-GetModels` function.
This refactoring improves code organization by separating UI event handling from the core application logic, leading to better readability and maintainability.
Extracts the logic for toggling an item's selection state with the spacebar into a new, reusable function. This change centralizes previously duplicated code, improving maintainability.
The event handling is moved from `KeyDown` to `PreviewKeyDown` to provide a more reliable user experience. Additionally, focus is now correctly restored to the toggled item, preventing the selection from moving unexpectedly.
Introduces a new `Invoke-BrowseAction` helper function to consolidate the creation of file and folder selection dialogs.
This change replaces scattered and repetitive `OpenFileDialog`, `SaveFileDialog`, and `ModernFolderPicker` implementations throughout the event handlers with a single, unified function call. This refactoring simplifies the event handler code, reduces duplication, and improves maintainability.
Consolidates the scattered event handlers for the Applications tab checkboxes into a single, centralized function and a shared event handler. This new approach manages the visibility of all dependent UI panels based on the state of the checkboxes.
This refactoring simplifies the codebase, eliminates redundant logic, and ensures a more consistent and predictable user interface state.
Additionally, this change fixes bugs where clearing list views for Winget results and drivers did not properly update their "select all" header checkboxes.
Consolidates the logic for showing and hiding UI elements into dedicated functions, `Update-DriverDownloadPanelVisibility` and `Update-OfficePanelVisibility`.
This change simplifies the event handlers for the "Download Drivers" checkbox by using a single handler for both checked and unchecked states. It also moves the initial UI setup from the main script into the core initialization module, improving code organization and reducing duplication.
Extracts inline event handler logic for managing Apps Script Variables from the main UI script into new functions within the `FFUUI.Core.Applications` module.
This change improves code organization and maintainability by centralizing the logic for adding and removing variables. The event handlers are updated to call these new, dedicated functions.
Moves the interdependent state logic for the driver-related checkboxes from the main UI script into a new, centralized function within the core module.
This change simplifies the event handling by using a single handler for all related checkboxes, which improves code readability and maintainability. The new function is also called during initialization to ensure the UI reflects the correct state on startup.
Moves the 'Browse' button click event handlers from the main UI script into the core handlers module.
This change improves code organization and separation of concerns. The handlers are updated to be more self-contained by retrieving state from the event source rather than relying on a global state variable, which improves modularity.
Moves the event handling and business logic for the "Bring Your Own Applications" feature from the main UI script into dedicated core modules.
This change improves code organization and separation of concerns by centralizing application-related functions and their corresponding event handlers. The main UI script is now cleaner and primarily responsible for UI initialization, enhancing overall code maintainability.
Extracts the Winget app download logic from the main UI script into a new `Invoke-WingetDownload` function within the core Winget module.
This change decouples the UI event handling from the business logic, improving modularity and maintainability. It also introduces more robust error handling for the download process by wrapping the logic in a try/catch block.
Moves UI event handling logic from the main script into a dedicated core module to improve separation of concerns.
Introduces a new shared function, `Clear-ListViewContent`, to consolidate duplicated logic for clearing list views. This generic function handles user confirmation, data source clearing, and UI updates for multiple tabs, significantly reducing code redundancy.
Relocates the event handling logic for the "Applications" tab from the main UI script into the `FFUUI.Core.Handlers` module.
This improves code organization and modularity by centralizing UI logic. The handlers are also updated to use local state instead of a global variable.
Moves event handlers and initial state configuration for the USB drive creation settings from the main UI script into the core handler and initialization modules.
This change centralizes the UI logic, improving code organization and maintainability.
Updates the USB drive selection UI to align with other list views in the application. This change replaces the static "Select All" checkbox with a dynamic, selectable column that includes the checkbox in the header.
This refactoring provides a more consistent user experience and adds column sorting functionality to the USB drive list.
Additionally, the underlying shared function for creating selectable columns is improved to use the central UI state object for managing controls, removing the dependency on script-scoped variables for better encapsulation.
Moves the event handling logic for the USB drive selection controls from the main UI script to the `FFUUI.Core.Handlers` module.
This change improves code organization by centralizing UI logic. The handlers were also improved to correctly manage the "Select All" checkbox state.
Moves the click event handler for detecting USB drives from the main UI script to the dedicated core handlers module.
This change centralizes UI logic, improving code organization and maintainability.
Moves the event handling logic for the "Latest CU" and "Preview CU" checkboxes from the main UI script into the core handlers module.
This change centralizes UI event handling, improving code organization and maintainability. The new implementation is also more robust, accessing state via the window's `Tag` property rather than a global script variable.
Consolidates the state management for the "Install Apps" checkbox into a single, reusable function.
Previously, the logic to automatically check and disable "Install Apps" when selecting an update or installing Office was duplicated and scattered across multiple event handlers and files.
This change introduces a new core function that centralizes this behavior. A single event handler is now used for all relevant checkboxes (Updates and Office), simplifying the UI code, reducing redundancy, and making the logic more robust and maintainable. The initial state is also set correctly on startup.
Moves the event handling logic for the M365 Apps/Office options from the main UI script into the `FFUUI.Core.Handlers` module.
This change centralizes UI event handling, improving code organization and maintainability. It also decouples the handlers from the main script by using a local state object instead of a global script variable.
Moves all UI event handling logic from the initialization script into a new, dedicated module `FFUUI.Core.Handlers.psm1`.
This change improves code organization and separation of concerns by centralizing event handler registration.
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