On the evening of Friday, February 2nd, I had the pleasure of speaking at the PowerShell User Group meeting in Jacksonville, FL. We sponsored the JAX group with pizza and had a great time talking about PowerShell Core and demoing some of the SAPIEN PowerShell Studio features, such as: File Grouping Custom tools Cache editor […]
Category: PowerShell
SAPIEN Tools – Setup WSL Bash with PowerShell Core in PrimalScript
In this blog post, we examine setting up WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) “Bash with PowerShell Core” in PrimalScript’s “Console Window” list. Prepare Bash File In order to open PowerShell Core in Linux, the bash shell needs to be open and pwsh should be run from the console. So, a bash file needs to be […]
SAPIEN Tools – How-To Work with PowerShell Core in PrimalScript
Now that PowerShell Core 6.0.0 has reached the GA (Generally Available) status, you can start developing scripts using PrimalScript. Yes, in this product look under “File | Options“, in the “Environment” section you’ll find the “Window Command” area. Here, PowerShell Core shell can be added manually. Also, if you’re using Windows 10 Build 16299 (or […]
Video featuring PowerShell Studio Cache Editor
Following the recent post on “PowerShell Studio Feature Nugget – Refreshing Local Cache PowerShell Cmdlets and Modules“: https://www.sapien.com/blog/2017/12/07/powershell-studio-feature-nugget-refreshing-local-cache-powershell-cmdlets-and-modules/ Check out the short video on “PowerShell Studio – Cache Editor Feature“: https://youtu.be/DMDzc7TAJig Remember, if you have any questions, feel free to check out our support page at: https://www.sapien.com/support
SAPIEN Technologies on PowerShell Core
SAPIEN Technologies strives to bring the best products to all levels of IT administration. The announcement of PowerShell Core, which is not a finished product yet, causes a lot of confusion. It is our policy that we can’t support products that haven’t been released-to-manufacturers (RTM). But this particular product, which is Open Source, is steadily taking […]
PowerShell Studio Feature Nugget – Refreshing Local Cache PowerShell Cmdlets and Modules
One feature of PowerShell Studio that you want to pay attention to is the PowerShell Cache Editor. When PowerShell Studio is opened for the first time, it creates a cache of all available cmdlets and modules that are on your local machine. The *cached cmdlets and modules are used to provide PrimalSense, syntax coloring for your […]
Using PowerShell Core in PrimalScript
Back in May 2016, SAPIEN did a blog post about “Using Bash with PrimalScript 2016“. In a way, using similar steps, we can setup and use PowerShell Core in PrimalScript 2017 as well. Keep in mind, due to the fact that PowerShell Core still in it’s early stages, you’ll have modify the console executable path […]
PowerShell Write Cmdlets
PowerShell has multiple Cmdlets that display information, but the question that often arises is which one should be used? In this post we will take a look at the differences between some of the more common ways to display information in PowerShell and which one will fit best for a given situation. Before we […]
Updated Online PowerShell Reference
We’ve just updated our online PowerShell Reference by adding two new sections, 1,706 cmdlets (bringing the total to 5,187!), and some minor enhancements to the cmdlets section. PowerShell Reference contains help for Windows PowerShell and PowerShell modules. This tool allows you to search through Cmdlet Help, About Help, Provider Help, Aliases and Modules with just […]
Write a Windows Service in PowerShell
Previously I showed you the new Windows Application engine (https://www.sapien.com/blog/2017/06/14/new-script-engines-for-windows-powershell/) and the Windows System Tray engine https://www.sapien.com/blog/2017/07/10/creating-a-system-tray-application-with-powershell/. Today I will show you the last of the three new engines, the Windows Service engine. Writing a Windows Service can be a challenging experience, even for a programmer. Generally, unless you do that exact thing for a […]
