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Asked: 2026-05-10T21:32:55+00:00

I’ll preface this question by saying this is for a Microsoft only shop. If

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I’ll preface this question by saying this is for a Microsoft only shop.

If you were to write a console app to manage a data warehouse what would you use:
1) Writing a custom environment for PowerShell (ala the latest flavors of Exchange / SQL Server)
2) Write it as a C# Console App

If #2 are there any frameworks that offload writing a ‘menu system’ or any other tasks for you.

If this app needed to last 6 to 8 years – would you use PowerShell? No one on the team currently has PowerShell experience, but we are quick learners.

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  1. If you write your management functionality as PowerShell cmdlets, then you can surface that functionality either by letting people run cmdlets directly, or by wrapping them in a GUI. Going with PowerShell probably gives you the most long-term flexibility, and as MS implements more PowerShell cmdlets, it means that managing your data warehouse could be incorporated with other, larger business processes if necessary. I would probably NOT choose to write a C# console app – but I have a distinctly more ‘administrator’ perspective. We admins are tired of having custom console apps tossed at us – the idea of PowerShell is to standardize everything in a way that supports both command-line and GUI administration.

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