With the latest service build (7.1.67) of PrimalScript 2015 we introduced a new feature; custom PrimalSense. While many items in a script can be determined dynamically based on context and offered as a selection in a list, there are equally as many items that are tied to your specific environment or your business logic. There […]
Category: Software News
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 […]
PowerShell GUI Debugging Tip: Duplicate Event Handlers
I’m not a professional tester, but I am an expert at making mistakes. I take risks. I try everything. I gravitate to “corner cases” and odd circumstances. That makes me a great amateur tester and, due to a lifetime of experience with breaking things, a pretty good debugger. But, at the Omaha PowerShell User Group meeting in August […]
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 […]
VersionRecall adds file locks
Source control systems usually operate in one of two ways: Check-in and check-out or with a concurrent submit. Check-in and check-out makes it easy to coordinate access to files in a project by team members. While a file is checked out, no one else can can submit a modification to that file until that particular […]
PowerShell Studio 2015: Service Release v4.2.92
We released a new service release for PowerShell Studio 2015 (v4.2.92). Here’s what’s new: Memory Improvements In this build we improved PowerShell Studio’s file memory usage. Larger files should now load faster and use up less memory than in previous builds of the product. Rename Controls: We added a “Rename” command to the GUI […]
Typing Enter Pushes a Button
As a beginner developer of PowerShell GUIs, I’m always looking for easy ways to make my simple applications more sophisticated and usable. One of the basic usability features in most applications is typing <Enter> in a textbox to invoke a function instead of clicking a Start, Go, or OK button. In this post, I’ll show […]
PowerShell Studio 2015: Service Release v4.2.90
We released a new service release for PowerShell Studio 2015 (v4.2.90). Here’s what’s new: Updated Editor Themes We updated the editor’s themes including the default, so be sure to apply the new PowerShell Studio theme after updating. These themes take into account the new additions to the syntax coloring (see below). For those […]
Important Information Regarding Windows 10 Update
Are you planning on upgrading your device(s) to Windows 10? Put on the brakes and save yourself a headache! There are a few necessary steps that need to be taken prior to the upgrade, in order to prevent the loss of your allotted two activations. Please perform the following steps on every device (for every […]
Software Activation Issues?
We have recently discovered an issue with our software activation system. If your username or password contains asterisks (*) and apostrophes (‘), your activation might fail with the following error: We are working to remedy this situation. In the meantime, please take a moment to check your SAPIEN account username (ID) and password for asterisks […]
