I’m not a professional tester, but I am an expert at making mistakes. I take risks. I try everything. I gravitate to “corner cases” and odd circumstances. That makes me a great amateur tester and, due to a lifetime of experience with breaking things, a pretty good debugger. But, at the Omaha PowerShell User Group meeting in August […]
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Don’t Underestimate Omaha!
When I announced, with obvious glee, that I was invited to present to the Omaha PowerShell User Group, I got a few virtual eye rolls from folks online. “Omaha. Must be fun after New York City. Hehe,” I heard. “Hope you like cows.” It was fun! (NYC was awesome, too.) But, while I see lots of […]
The Methods that Register Events
If you create PowerShell GUI apps in PowerShell Studio, you become very familiar with the events of the Windows Forms types, like the Load event of forms, the Click event of buttons, and the TextChanged event of textboxes. PowerShell Studio handles most of the background details of event management for you, but it’s useful and […]
VersionRecall adds file locks
Source control systems usually operate in one of two ways: Check-in and check-out or with a concurrent submit. Check-in and check-out makes it easy to coordinate access to files in a project by team members. While a file is checked out, no one else can can submit a modification to that file until that particular […]
Get Commands in a Nested Module
Many Windows PowerShell modules include nested modules. In fact, some of your favorite cmdlets might be in a nested module, but you wouldn’t typically know it. Nested modules are reusable, so you can repackage and use nested modules independently and in other modules, unless, of course, they require something in the parent module. For example, […]
PowerShell Studio 2015: Service Release v4.2.92
We released a new service release for PowerShell Studio 2015 (v4.2.92). Here’s what’s new: Memory Improvements In this build we improved PowerShell Studio’s file memory usage. Larger files should now load faster and use up less memory than in previous builds of the product. Rename Controls: We added a “Rename” command to the GUI […]
Typing Enter Pushes a Button
As a beginner developer of PowerShell GUIs, I’m always looking for easy ways to make my simple applications more sophisticated and usable. One of the basic usability features in most applications is typing <Enter> in a textbox to invoke a function instead of clicking a Start, Go, or OK button. In this post, I’ll show […]
PowerShell Studio 2015: Service Release v4.2.90
We released a new service release for PowerShell Studio 2015 (v4.2.90). Here’s what’s new: Updated Editor Themes We updated the editor’s themes including the default, so be sure to apply the new PowerShell Studio theme after updating. These themes take into account the new additions to the syntax coloring (see below). For those […]
Important Information Regarding Windows 10 Update
Are you planning on upgrading your device(s) to Windows 10? Put on the brakes and save yourself a headache! There are a few necessary steps that need to be taken prior to the upgrade, in order to prevent the loss of your allotted two activations. Please perform the following steps on every device (for every […]
