The SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. staff is usually a very serious and focused team. But, we love holidays, especially Halloween. So, we’ve created a little app that reveals what’s behind the SAPIEN logo. Just click the button to find the awful truth. Happy Halloween, everyone! See the code at https://github.com/SAPIENTechnologies/Halloween2016
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Are you SAPIEN MVP material? Apply here!
SAPIEN Technologies has a great MVP award program that provides SAPIEN MVPs with complimentary full copies of all SAPIEN software, including all updates, and copies of all books published during the award year. In return, SAPIEN MVPs demonstrate a continuing contribution to SAPIEN products through blog posts, forum participation, videos, product reviews, constructive feedback, and […]
My SAPIEN License is expiring. No, it’s not!
Recently, a PowerShell friend lamented that his PowerShell Studio license was expiring and he was going to miss using his Studio while he convinced his management to renew. He was wrong. SAPIEN licenses never expire. Never ever ever ever. Legally, they’re perpetual. When you buy SAPIEN software, it’s yours. End of story. SAPIEN software is […]
Setting up PowerShell on your Mac (Update!)
Now that PowerShell is available on the Mac, we thought it would be useful to show how easy it is to setup a Mac terminal session that automatically opens into PowerShell. Figure 1 shows what we mean. First you need to download the PowerShell macOS package from here (look for the Get PowerShell section in the README.md) and […]
Celebrating 30 Years
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iPowerShell Changes: New platforms! Now FREE!
iPowerShell, our little iOS app, has come a long way over the years. It started out as simply a reference tool for PowerShell cmdlets, about_help and provider help. Over the years, we added YouTube videos, PowerShell Twitter posts, PowerShell Web Access, remote connectivity with PSWA and SSH, and a color coded editor. Today we […]
Writing Help for Dynamic Parameters
Because dynamic parameters can be added to a command from multiple sources, the command author (who writes the help) cannot predict the dynamic parameters that might be available at runtime. Therefore, Get-Help expects dynamic parameters to be documented in the help file for the code that adds the dynamic parameters; not the code that has […]
How Do Multi-Form Projects Work?
Applies to: PowerShell Studio 2016, Windows PowerShell 3.0+ I recently wrote an article with step-by-step instructions for creating a very simple multi-form PowerShell GUI application. In our sample app, we use PowerShell Studio features that make it very easy to open a child form from the main form and gets the text in the textbox […]
Introducing the SAPIEN Information Center
Over the years, the articles in this blog have grown extensively. There’s a lot of valuable information in here, but it’s become hard to find because it’s mixed in with various tour announcements, special offers, conference recaps, and the like. So, we have decided to pull the important articles and place them—along with information relevant […]
Job Opening: C# Developer at SAPIEN
Read our job posting: C# Developer One of the best things you can do for your career is to keep it continually challenging. Never be the smartest person at work. Never be the most experienced. Never watch the industry progress while leaving you behind. Never continue doing it the way you’ve always done it. If […]
