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iPowerShell Pro adds support for iOS 9 Features
SAPIEN has just released another update to iPowerShell Pro, its iOS-based PowerShell editor and remote connectivity tool. With this update, we focussed primarily on iOS 9 compatibility. iPad Multi-Tasking iPowerShell Pro is now a good citizen in the iPad multi-tasking community. If you’re using an iPad running iOS 9, you can split the screen and […]
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 […]
Rewind: A Built-In Safety Net in PowerShell Studio
We just released the second video in our “Check out this feature” series, a series of short videos that focus on features you might have missed. Our first video, Function Builder in SAPIEN PowerShell Studio, demonstrated our awesome automation for function and parameter syntax. Our second video, Rewind in PowerShell Studio: A built-in safety net […]
Do you have what it takes to be a SAPIEN MVP?
SAPIEN Technologies has a great MVP award 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 and forums, product reviews, constructive feedback, and the use of SAPIEN […]
Engine Type Prerequisites
When building executables in PrimalScript or PowerShell Studio there are various engine types to choose from, each of them with a prerequisite that must be installed on the machine that will be running your program. For example, if you build an executable in PowerShell Studio and select the SAPIEN PowerShell V2 Host (Command Line) Win32 engine then the .NET […]
PowerShellGet-GUI Part 2
Continuing on from where we left off in our last blog post entitled “PowerShellGet-GUI part 1″, let us examine some of the other features of the PowerShell Get GUI application. With our list successfully loaded with PowerShell Gallery modules, the user can take several actions: Select a module to inspect it’s properties Select a non-installed […]
