Some of you may have already encountered this. You upgraded your system to PowerShell 3.0, 4.0, or 5.0 and you want PrimalScript or PowerShell Studio to recognize the new version of PowerShell. This article addresses that very question. You can accomplish this by following the steps outlined below. This article will also cover the case where you add […]
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Not all syntax coloring is created equal
Syntax coloring for programming languages was originally introduced as a visual aid to assist developers in assessing the syntactical correctness of code. Unlike the squiggly red or green underlines in Microsoft Word colors indicate validation rather than error. So while glancing at a syntax colored stretch of code the usual green hue of comments and […]
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 […]
Become the Master of PowerShell!
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PowerShell Studio 2012 Review and Bruce Almighty?
Another product review of PowerShell Studio 2012 was brought to my attention. This one comes with an interesting title: Sapien’s PowerShell Studio 2012 –The “Bruce Almighty” of all the PowerShell ISEs !! I would like to thank Manoj Nair for writing a glowing (heavenly maybe?) review of PowerShell Studio 2012. At the end of the […]
New poll: How do you run your PowerShell scripts?
Please look to the right. There is a new poll. Please take a minute and let us know. Pick the option you use most if you use a variety of methods. If you have any feedback, ideas, comments, something we missed, please comment on this post or use our forum and post in the appropriate […]
PowerShell Studio 2012 with GIT, Subversion and Mercurial Oh, my!
Similar to PrimalScript 2012, we received requests to add support for GIT, Mercurial, and Subversion in PowerShell Studio 2012. The difficulty of supporting all these various source control solutions is that they all have different APIs and change over time. The varying nature of these tools could potentially make the integration outdated fairly quickly. One […]
Out-GridView fails in PowerShell V2 after V3 update
Seems there was a recent update to PowerShell V3 that has affected PowerShell V2. Now the Out-Gridview cmdlet produces an error and no longer functions in PowerShell V2. This issue affects all products using PowerShell including packaged scripts running in V2 mode. V2 only machines may not be affected To reproduce the error start PowerShell […]
Reference Highlighting in PowerShell Studio 2012
PrimalScript 2012 isn’t the only product to get Reference Highlighting! As per user requests, PowerShell Studio 2012 also allows you to highlight references in your code simply by double clicking on a variable, identifier, member, function or any other object. You can also use the Ctrl + W(ord) keyboard shortcut to access select the […]
Using GIT, Subversion and Mercurial with PrimalScript 2012
For quite some time we have been asked to add support for the aforementioned version control systems to PrimalScript. But every time we looked into it, the API changed or the preferred system du jour changed. We didn’t want to add support for too many API’s that get potentially outdated fast. But most importantly, many […]
