With release of the v4.2.83 build of PowerShell Studio 2015, we introduced new features that we are covering in detail over a series of articles. This next new feature was also added in response to user feedback. This particular user wanted to use the modern version of the folder browser dialog that is available in […]
Tag: gui
PowerShell Studio: Knowing when to use STA mode
Follow @SAPIENDavid Recently, on our forums, a user asked why certain controls didn’t function correctly or threw an error when he unchecked the STA option in PowerShell Studio. STA (Single Threaded Apartment) and MTA (Multi-Threaded Apartment) determine how a process manages legacy COM objects and their communication with multiple threads. I will not go into […]
PowerShell Studio: Form and Script Recovery
Once in a while our support team gets a request to recover a script from a packaged executable because the original was lost. In fact this just happened recently when a user contacted us to recover his lost form project from his packaged script. We were able to recover the script, but unfortunately the user […]
Customizing the Console
Even though I’ve been writing scripts for years, I find that I work in the Console Pane in PowerShell Studio 2014 almost as much as I work in the Editor Pane. I use the Console Pane to look up commands and syntax (Get-Command), test a parameter value, or work through the details of a pipeline […]
Building PowerShell GUI Solutions
The second leg of SAPIEN’s Building PowerShell GUI Solutions world tour is complete. This trip took us to Dallas, Raleigh and to New York City for the NY Techstavaganza. We had a great time showing PowerShell users how to create great GUI interfaces for their PowerShell scripts, and how to use PowerShell Studio 2014 to create […]
PowerShell Studio: GUI Tutorials
The guys over at PowerShell Task Force have been posting a series of GUI Tutorials using PowerShell Studio 2012, including a festive Christmas GUI: Create AD users the GUI way: http://powershelltaskforce.com/2013/12/create-ad-users-part-6/# Merry Christmas – How To: http://powershelltaskforce.com/2013/12/merry-christmas-the-how-to/ I would like to thank PowerShell Task Force for the tutorials! Happy Holidays!
PowerShell Studio 2012 – WinForms – GUI ToolMaking
Francois-Xavier Cat over at the LazyWinAdmin blog, wrote a follow up article to Creating a GUI with PowerShell Studio. Like the previous article, a video is included: “Today I will go a bit further and show you how to create a tool to query some information from a remote computer. I will first send […]
Creating a GUI with PowerShell Studio
Francois-Xavier Cat over at the LazyWinAdmin blog, wrote a great article on how to create a basic GUI using PowerShell Studio 2012. In addition, the article includes a video of the process: “The following post will demo how to create a basic Graphical User Interface with SAPIEN PowerShell Studio 2012. Last year I released […]
PowerShell Studio – Passing and Returning Values using Forms
Two frequent questions we get on the forums are: How do I pass a value to another form? How do I get the results from a form? In this article, we will answer these common questions in order to give you a better understanding about how to use projects with multiple forms. Getting Started […]
PowerShell Scoping – Revisited
Yes, we said we would not speak of it again, but a user post provided a good example of the change in scoping rules between PowerShell V2 and V3. This particular user had a question about GUI controls on our new PowerShell GUIs forum and provided an example GUI script. In the example, the user […]
