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. […]
Tag: Windows PowerShell
New! “Check out this feature” Videos
How many times have you found about a feature of a SAPIEN product, like PowerShell Studio, and realized that 1) you never knew it existed and 2) it would have saved you gobs of time had you only known about it. We’re introducing a new series of videos on our SAPIEN Technologies YouTube channel to […]
Creating Objects in Windows PowerShell
Applies to: PowerShell 5.0.10240 I was recently in the beautiful city of Copenhagen, Denmark, where I was the guest of PSUG.DK, PowerShell User Group in Denmark. We met in the swanky Microsoft offices for a hands-on about classes in Windows PowerShell 5.0. Microsoft Offices, Copenhagen, Denmark. In the hands-on lab, we create a class, create […]
Using Module-Qualified Cmdlet Names
Open-source projects and new methods of distributing modules, such as PowerShellGet and the PowerShell Gallery, have significantly increased the availability of Windows PowerShell modules. While we once relied on modules from Microsoft, we now can select from hundreds of new modules developed in the community. The upside of having so many modules is vastly increased […]
Why Do We Need Constructors?
While traveling after PowerShell Summit Europe in Stockholm, I was honored to be the guest of the Microsoft Technical User Group in Oslo, Norway (@MTUG_Norge). This well-established user group meets on the beautiful campus of the University of Oslo, a short light-rail ride from downtown Oslo. We got together for a hands-on lab on classes […]
What’s new in iPowerShell Pro?
Build 5.0.133 of iPowerShell Pro has just been released. This build primarily covers iOS 9 compatibility with some bug fixes and performance increases. But we did slip in a very interesting and future oriented feature: the ability to connect to PowerShell remotely via SSH! In June of 2015, the PowerShell team announced that they were […]
WMI Explorer Windows 8 Remote Connection Issues
Connecting WMI Explorer to a remote Windows 8 computer is not an easy task. Due to the various firewall and permission settings that Windows 8 has, there are a few things that need to be modified in order to connect properly. Please note that this article only addresses Windows 8 and 8.1 but not Windows […]
PowerShell Conference Asia 2015
PowerShell Conference Asia (#PSConfAsia) held its inaugural sessions on September 18th and 19th, 2015 at Microsoft headquarters in Singapore. SAPIEN was the platinum sponsor of this event. A great set of sessions was kicked off with a State of the Union talk by Jefferey Snover (Technical Fellow at Microsoft and creator of PowerShell). Ferdinand Rios (CEO of […]
Scope in a PowerShell GUI App
If you search the SAPIEN blog, you’ll realize that this is the not our first blog about scope in PowerShell GUIs. In March 2013, SAPIEN CTO Alex Riedel wrote First Rule of PowerShell Scoping Rules, a title that implies the final word in a discussion that wasn’t easy to end. Alex’s blog explained the differences […]
The Methods that Register Events
If you create PowerShell GUI apps in PowerShell Studio, you become very familiar with the events of the Windows Forms types, like the Load event of forms, the Click event of buttons, and the TextChanged event of textboxes. PowerShell Studio handles most of the background details of event management for you, but it’s useful and […]
