PowerShell Studio has a selection of Windows Form templates that you can use to speed up your development. You will most likely be using your own code snippets to add behind the form controls, as well as the snippets available in PowerShell Studio, and perhaps snippets from someone else. This is fine until you start […]
Tag: Controls
PowerShell Studio: Initializing my GUI controls
If you are working with a GUI script within PowerShell Studio and find that you need to edit the exported script to modify the control’s initialization, then you are doing something wrong. Don’t get me wrong, modifying and initialization of control properties is not the issue; in fact that it part of writing a GUI. […]
PowerShell Studio: Ambient properties
In the PowerShell Studio: Enable and Disable Groups of Controls article we discussed how you can enable or disable group of controls by setting the parent control’s Enable property. Now we will look at other properties that have a similar trickle down effect, but work fundamentally in a different fashion. For example, if you change […]
Spotlight on Controls: The Versatile Tag Property
You may not be aware that each WinForm Control has a Tag property which can be very useful in certain circumstances. Why use the Tag Property? Use the Tag property when you need to associate an object or store state information to a particular control. This ability to assign any object to the property, be […]
PowerShell Studio: Enable and Disable Groups of Controls
If you follow the Spotlight on Controls series you might be familiar with the Enable property that is shared by all WinForms controls. This property allows you to disable controls so they no longer can be interacted with. For example, after pressing a button that triggers a Job, it is necessary to disable the button […]
Spotlight on the StatusStrip Control
The “Spotlight on Controls” series focuses on a single WinForms control in PowerShell Studio 2012, 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. Note: The StatusStrip control is only available for […]
WinForms Interactive Reference Guide for PowerShell
Not long ago we released the WinForms Control Reference for PowerShell. We have taken the Reference a step further by creating an interactive version! The Interactive Reference allows you to display help information by clicking on a control in the Toolbox: For those of you who like reading on paper, you have the option to […]
WinForms Control Reference for PowerShell
We are happy to release the “WinForms Control Reference for PowerShell” guide. This guide provides you with a quick reference for the WinForm controls in PowerShell Studio. The document contains a list of all the important properties, methods, and events that you should be familiar with when creating GUIs in PowerShell. How can I […]
Spotlight on the StatusBar Control
The “Spotlight on Controls” series focuses on a single WinForms control in PowerShell Studio 2012, 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 […]
PowerShell Studio: Creating Responsive Forms
When working with GUIs you may have noticed that the Form can freeze when running long scripts. Previously I discussed how to make your loops more responsive in this article, but not every long script comes in the form of a loop. If you truly want to make your forms responsive, you will need to […]
