SAPIEN is proud to be a sponsor of the PowerShell Summit North America 2013 and, to celebrate, we are offering 20% off all our PowerShell-related products during the month of April. That includes PowerShell Studio 2012, PrimalScript 2012, all our ebooks, and the PowerShell Video Training Set. Choose one, choose all! The PowerShell Summit is […]
Another PowerShell V3 breakpoint bug [UPDATED]
[UPDATE] Some users report that they cannot reproduce this behavior on Windows 8. Our Windows 8 machines show the same behavior. We will investigate further what the differences are. [END UPDATE] As we previously reported here (PowerShell V3 breakpoint bug) PowerShell V3 has a serious breakpoint bug where breakpoints cannot be set or removed after […]
PowerShell Studio 2012 Product Review
We would like to thank “New SQL Blog” for recently posting a review of PowerShell Studio 2012. “If you spend a lot of time writing PowerShell code there’s just no better ISE out there.” Read the full review: http://newsqlblog.com/2013/03/14/powershell-studio-review/
Service Release (3/25/2013)
New versions of our SAPIEN Software are available. Registered users can download the latest service builds from MySAPIEN. Release Notes: PrimalScript 2012 v 6.5.142: UPD: Minor bug fixes and enhancements PowerShell Studio 2012 v3.1.17 FIX: Potential issue when editing Access database connection.FIX: Grid Search Template error with null values.FIX: Output panel go to line […]
New blog poll: Which PrimalScript panels do you use regularly?
Look to the right. A new blog poll is up. We would like to know which panels in PrimalScript you use regularly. That doesn’t mean you need to have one visible all the time to check it. If you use it, in any fashion, check it. If you don’t use, don’t check it. Don’t even […]
PowerShell SuperHero Confesses All
It’s always great to receive feedback from our users and fans but it’s particularly nice when they blog about our software or even about our line of clothing! Mike Robbins wrote a great review about PowerShell Studio 2012 (link here) and we encourage you to read it. He also has a couple pictures of himself […]
Jazz up your VBScripts with PowerShell and Windows Forms
Sure, you are supposed to write all new scripts in PowerShell. Some say you can replace any VBScript with a single line in PowerShell. But the truth is, many of you still have to maintain, develop and debug scripts written in VBScript. Some of our customers also have to maintain VBScript or JScript files that […]
PrimalSQL 2012 – Editor’s Choice Award Winner
We are proud to announce PrimalSQL 2012 has won WebHost Magazine’s Editor Choice award! “For creating a powerful, full featured and easy to use SQL development tool, Sapien Technologies’ PrimalSQL 2012 receives our Editors’ Choice award for March 2013.” You can read the full article here: http://www.webhostmagazine.com/awards/sapien-simple-powerful-sql-management/ Thank you!
New & Improved Support Forum
As you may have noticed, we launched our new Support Forum this past Monday. The phpBB3-based forum offers better search capabilities, an improved editor as well as easier and speedier navigation. The biggest addition, however is the ability to post both PowerShell and VBScript code with appropriate syntax highlighting. You’ll notice a menu of buttons […]
First rule of PowerShell scoping rules…
… never talk about PowerShell scoping rules. Judging from the posts, emails and questions we get about variable scope in PowerShell Studio forms, PowerShell scoping rules are shrouded in mystery. When you read about_scopes you get a lot of information. When you come from any other scripting language, for example VBScript, you are used to […]
