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 […]
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Where are v3 and v4? PowerShell Versions in PowerShell Studio
In this post, we explain why PowerShell Studio can run your scripts only the versions of Windows PowerShell that are installed on local and remote computers. If you’ve recently upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7, 8, or 8.1, you’ll notice quickly that you now have Windows PowerShell 5.0. Depending on your upgrade path and […]
Output from a Script in an Executable File
This is the fourth blog in a multi-part series about designing a Windows PowerShell script that will be packaged in an executable file. Passing Parameters to a Script in an Executable File explains how to use the special parsing features of PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript to make passing parameters easy for PowerShell users and authors. […]
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 […]
How do you run scripts?
It’s one of those questions that probably divides people into clans, like where you place your curly braces in a script block. Take the survey: How do you run scripts? But, it’s an important question for productivity. Those of us who live the PowerShell life run scripts all the time. We might also delegate the […]
Enable WMI Explorer Windows 8 Remote Connection Permissions
Earlier in October, I posted a blog about remote connection failures that occur when using WMI Explorer on a remote computer running Windows 8. This solution doesn’t apply to computers running other versions of Windows. To sum it up, you need to make three changes for WMI Explorer to connect to a Windows 8 remote […]
Displaying Help for a Script in an Executable File
This is the third blog in a multi-part series about designing a Windows PowerShell scripts that will be packaged in an executable file. Passing Parameters to a Script in an Executable File explains how to use the special parsing features of PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript to make passing parameters easy for PowerShell users and authors. […]
Parsing Parameters for a Script in an Executable File
This is the second blog in a multi-part series about designing a Windows PowerShell script that will be packaged in an executable file. Passing Parameters to a Script in an Executable File explains how to use the special parsing features of PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript to make passing parameters easy for PowerShell users and authors. […]
Create a PowerShell GUI App with a Fixed-Size UI
The newest video in our “Check out this feature” series is actually an answer to a great question that was posed to me on Reddit. A PowerShell GUI with a Fixed-Size UI shows you how to use the features of PowerShell Studio to create a PowerShell GUI app that the end-user cannot resize. A fixed-size […]
Passing Parameters to a Script in an Executable File
This is the first blog in a multi-part series about designing a Windows PowerShell script that will be packaged in an executable file. Passing Parameters to a Script in an Executable File explains how to use the special parsing features of PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript to make passing parameters easy for PowerShell users and authors. […]
