Last month I had the pleasure to talk about SAPIEN products and PowerShell while traveling across Europe and Asia. I’m grateful and appreciate everyone who made my travel safe and interesting. The Tour Visits October 10th, 2018 (Wednesday) London – PowerShell Day UK at the CodeNode offices and the London PowerShell User Group meetup at […]
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SAPIEN Technologies – Europe and Asia Tour 2018
This October I will be traveling to Europe and Asia. During this trip I will be speaking about PowerShell, demonstrating SAPIEN Technologies products, and most importantly I will show how PowerShell Studio can make you a better scripter. Itinerary October 10th, 2018 (Wednesday) London – PowerShell Day UK Full day event 10 South Place (Wilson […]
PowerShell Studio: How to prevent Powershell cmdlets from hanging in GUI apps
We have seen issues reported in our support forum where Azure commands are not terminating, or more likely their cmdlets are not returning in a GUI environment. This is due to the Powershell pipeline being held up by the GUI, which could prevent Powershell from processing internal messages and events thus causing a hang when a […]
PowerShell Studio: Working with Azure Cloud Shell
I have been playing around with my Linux environment and AzureRM.Netcore cmdlets for some time now. I have also been using my Windows 10 WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) for working cross-platform with Microsoft Azure Cloud Shell. Azure Cloud Shell has been around for some time and has undergone some significant improvements—notably the ability to […]
Write a Multi-Form PowerShell GUI App
Tested on: PowerShell 2.0+, PowerShell Studio 2016 This step-by-step example shows you how to create a very simple multi-form PowerShell GUI app. The app consists of a parent form that gets data from a child form and displays it. When you finish, you’ll know how to use the basic multi-form features of PowerShell Studio. For […]
PowerShell GUI Apps: Why think in events?
Always committed to starting the New Year right, I’m heading to Scottsdale, Arizona on Tuesday, January 5 at 5:30 PM to meet with the newly revived Arizona PowerShell User Group. We’ll meet at the Microsoft Store in Scottsdale Fashion Square. (I will not be distracted by the Surface Pro 4 on display. I will not…) […]
How I learned to love DialogResult
This post discusses the DialogResult property of buttons, which often confuses beginning PowerShell GUI app designers. When I first started learning how to write PowerShell GUI applications, I thought of the DialogResult property of buttons as the “evil property.” What else would I think? If the DialogResult property of a button is set to any […]
Spotlight on the Label 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 […]
PowerShellGet-GUI Part 2
Continuing on from where we left off in our last blog post entitled “PowerShellGet-GUI part 1″, let us examine some of the other features of the PowerShell Get GUI application. With our list successfully loaded with PowerShell Gallery modules, the user can take several actions: Select a module to inspect it’s properties Select a non-installed […]
PowerShellGet-GUI Part 1
Back in mid-September, I presented a talk on “Building PowerShell GUI Tool Solutions” at the PowerShell Conference Asia in Singapore. The talk centered around GUI application design and development using PowerShell as the core language. During that talk , I developed an application that used PowerShell’s PSGet module to communicate with the PowerShell Gallery. Finishing work […]
