SAPIEN Technologies, Inc is proud to announce the release of PowerShell ModuleManager 2019—the premier management tool for PowerShell modules. PowerShell ModuleManager makes it easy to search and manage modules installed on your machine, ensuring that your modules are always up-to-date. Find yourself in module version hell? PowerShell ModuleManager prevents version confusion by removing outdated module […]
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PowerShell Studio: Working with Remote Systems (Part 1)
This is the first post in a blog series about working with remote systems using PowerShell Studio. The following topics are covered: Part 1 – Caching Remote Systems PowerShell Modules Part 2 – PowerShell remoting In this first installment I will show you how to use SAPIEN Technologies’ Cache Export tool to collect module information […]
Module Manager: The indispensable new tool for managing PowerShell modules
SAPIEN Technologies recently released a free Preview version of the new Module Manager tool. This tool will make your module management free of headaches! How many times have you discovered that you are working with an outdated module? Or perhaps you already have a routine of doing a manual, tedious search for the latest releases […]
How to Write About Help for your Module
Since installing PowerShell 5.0, I’ve been using the PowerShellGet cmdlets to install and examine many of the new modules on PowerShell Gallery. Unfortunately, this is often quite a chore. While many have some help for cmdlets, few have an About topic that tells me how to use the cmdlets together to solve real-world problems. And, […]
Exporting from Modules: A Reminder
There are so many new things in Windows PowerShell that I often assume that I know the basics. But, while working on a project about modules, I ran into some new guidance from PowerShell developer Jason Shirk and a great blog post that demonstrates that information about variables in a TechNet topic about module manifests […]
PowerShell Studio 2014: Convert Functions into a Module
PowerShell Studio 2014 added a new project feature: New Module From Functions. You may find at times you reuse various functions and constantly copy them into new scripts or find different variations of the same function are located in different scripts. You may come to the conclusion that those functions would better serve you in […]
Introducing the MSI Wizard
Both PrimalScript 2014 and PowerShell Studio 2014 will have to ability to create Windows Installer files (MSI) for your scripts, modules or packaged executables. It works pretty straightforward; put the files you want to install into a folder, enter some additional settings and mucho presto you have an installer. As we previously pointed out, this […]
Changes are coming to the script packager
The Script Packager has been a key feature of PrimalScript for many years now. Devised originally in the Windows 2000 era, it has some features that simply are no longer relevant or applicable in modern Windows versions. As many of you know, the packager has the ability to self-extract data files and COM objects when […]
Debugging PowerShell modules with PrimalScript 2012
The latest service build of PrimalScript 2012 (6.5.132) makes debugging modules a bit easier. If you are developing a script module you most likely already have a script that exercises the various cmdlets in your module. Just load that script and your psm1 file into PrimalScript, set your breakpoints and hit F5 with your module […]
