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 […]
Category: PowerShell Studio
PowerShell Studio 2015 – New Custom Menu Features & GIT template
We are continuing to cover the new features introduced in the latest service build of PowerShell Studio 2015 (v4.2.95). In this article we will cover the new additions to PowerShell Studio’s custom menu. For those who aren’t familiar with the custom menu, it is a menu that users can customize to call other tools and […]
PowerShell Studio 2015 – Find References and File in Files Update
We just released another build of PowerShell Studio 2015 (v4.2.95). We included a few new features to this build, but we will focus on the search-related features in this particular article. Find in Files Update We added some new options to the “Find In” pull down list of the Find in Files dialog. The […]
Hidden Charms of PowerShell Studio
I’m coming up on my one-year anniversary at SAPIEN Technologies, Inc. and my one-year anniversary of using PowerShell Studio as my primary IDE. When I speak at conferences and user groups, I don’t typically talk about products, because people don’t want to hear “vendor talks.” But, in private, I’ve become a total PowerShell Studio fan-girl. […]
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 […]
PowerShell Studio 2015: Service Release v4.2.94 and Projects with Folders
We released a new service build for PowerShell Studio 2015 (v4.2.94). Here’s what’s new: Folder Support in Projects PowerShell Studio 2015 projects now support folders. The project folders reflect the folder structure of the project files. Therefore if you previously organized your project files in folders within the project’s directory, those folders will automatically be […]
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 […]
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 […]
