This month we are celebrating our 25th year in business and *you* are receiving the gifts! Everything in our online catalog—software, books, DVD, even our fabulous Infiniti pens (as featured in Battlestar Galactica)—is 25% off retail prices. For our silver anniversary, we thought about giving you something made of silver but then we realized that […]
Where did the PrimalScript 2011 Studio download go?
Some of you have already noticed that the download for PrimalScript 2011 Studio is no longer available from our download pages and your account page on MySAPIEN. Instead, registered PrimalScript Studio and Universal users see downloads for the individual components of PrimalScript Studio, namely PrimalScript 2011, PrimalForms 2011, PrimalSQL 2011, PrimalXML 2011 and soon ChangeVue […]
Service Release (8/22/2011)
New versions of PrimalScript 2011, PrimalForms 2011, PrimalSQL 2011, and PrimalXML 2011 are available. Registered users can download the latest service builds from MySAPIEN. Release Notes: PrimalScript 2011 v6.0.149 Fix: Crash when using Run in Shell with some scripts Fix: Enable code misses last line Fix: Regular expression match failed Fix: Multi-select in project tree […]
You love us, right? So vote for your favorite tools!
Under normal circumstances, this would be considered a shameless plug but, since we know that you love our tools and support, just consider this an affirmation of our commitment to each other! WindowsIT Pro is conducting a technology survey and we are up for *awesome* in several categories. They are: Best Scripting Tool (question # […]
25 Years and Counting
This week, on August 15th, SAPIEN Technologies celebrated its 25th year in business. Yes, 25 years! It is hard for me to believe sometimes that I have spent pretty close to half my lifetime doing something that I love and working with a group of people that never fails to amaze, educate, inspire and entertain […]
PrimalForms 2011: Spotlight on the ErrorProvider Control
The “Spotlight on Controls” series focuses on a single WinForms control in PrimalForms 2011 , details the important Properties, Methods, and Events of the control and demonstrates how to utilize the control. Most of the information about the controls is still applicable to previous versions of PrimalForms. Last time we took a look at the […]
PrimalForms 2011: Create an Awesome Fade In Form
Did you ever want to make your forms a little more flashy? How about creating an Awesome Fade In Form? Yeah that’s right I said Awesome! [Start Deep Voice] Everybody loves it when their forms make a smooth entrance. Ohhh Yeahhh… As opposed to the typical abrupt “here I am” way. But then again, whatever […]
VBScript Video Training Available as a Download
We released our PowerShell Video Training as a download and the response was overwhelming! Once again, you asked for it, you got it! Our VBScript Video Training set is now available as a download! This is the perfect way to learn VBScript with these self-paced videos. Each set contains our VBScript 101, VBScript 201, VBScript […]
Spotlight on the Timer Control
The Spotlight on Controls series describes the controls, that is, the objects in the System.Windows.Forms namespace, so you can use them effectively when building GUI apps in PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript. Each post focuses on one control and lists its most important properties, methods, and events, including the default event that PowerShell Studio adds to […]
PrimalForms 2011: Slimmer Form Code
In the latest service release (v2.0.11) we updated PrimalForm 2011’s code generator so that it produces slimmer scripts. We wanted to increase the readability and at the same time reduce the size of the generated script. The following is a script block generated by the previous version of PrimalForms 2011: Now we have the same […]
