We’ve written a series of blog posts to introduce you to the newest features of the product and in this release, we made major changes to PowerShell HelpWriter. In Part 1, we looked at the new UI changes to the designer and the editor. In Part 2, we are looking at the new project feature […]
From regular user to elevated administrator…
This is a question that comes up fairly often in our support forums, so I thought I would post a quick overview. The scenario is that an admin wants to package his script as an executable to allow regular users to accomplish some type of task, which requires full administrative privileges. Since Windows Vista, […]
PowerShell Studio 2017: What’s New?
PowerShell Studio 2017 is released! PowerShell Studio 2017 is included as part of the regular update cycle for our subscribers. What’s New? In this article, we will introduce you to the new additions and changes in this release. As you know we don’t hold back major features just for major releases, for example we […]
PowerShell HelpWriter 2017: What’s New? (Part 1)
PowerShell HelpWriter 2017 is released! PowerShell HelpWriter 2017 is included as part of the regular update cycle for our subscribers. We’ve written a series of blog posts to introduce you to the newest features of the product and in this release, we made major changes to PowerShell HelpWriter. What do we mean by major changes? […]
Friday Puzzle: What does a Catch block catch?
On Friday, January 6, 2017, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter and Facebook (here, too!). It shows a Try block that encloses an expression with an intentional error and a Catch block that writes an error. But, when you run it, the error doesn’t appear as designed. The error is supposed to say ‘Cannot […]
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Friday Puzzle: Phantom Help
On Friday, December 16, 2016, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter. It shows a function that has no comment-based help or XML help, but when you run Get-Help on the function, Get-Help displays both a description and notes for the function. What is the source of help for this function? I call this unintentional […]
SAPIEN MVP 2017 Award Winners
One of the highlights of the end of each year is the opportunity to bestow the SAPIEN MVP Award for the coming year. This year, we had a record number of applications and we’re delighted to welcome two new MVPs and several continuing MVPs. The SAPIEN MVP Award 2017 is awarded to a group of […]
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Why Breaking Changes?
In PowerShell Studio 5.3.130, we made some changes to projects that aren’t recognized by previous versions of PowerShell Studio. This blog post describes the changes, explains why we made them, and offers a workaround in case you really need it. Also, note that SAPIEN has properly incremented the Minor property in the PowerShell Studio version […]
