Previously, when creating comment based help in PowerShell Studio 2012, you either had to manually add the help comment or use the built-in comment based help snippet. The snippets worked well but you were still required to manually add each parameter of the function which takes time and there are better ways we would rather […]
Category: PowerShell Studio
PowerShell Studio 2014: What New in the Editor?
Let’s look at some of the new features you will find in PowerShell Studio 2014’s editor. Improved Syntax Coloring One of the first editing features you might have noticed in PowerShell Studio 2014 is the improved syntax coloring. Parameter Attributes and Type Coloring: PowerShell Studio will now color parameter attributes and types when valid: External […]
Microsoft Windows 8.1 breaks version API.
If we need to check what Windows version a PowerShell script run on, we usually use a statement like this: So imagine our surprise when we saw what happens when you run this as a script in PrimalScript: Instead of reporting the actual Windows version, it appears as if we are running in Windows 8 […]
PowerShell Studio 2014: What New in the Designer?
In the previous article we mentioned the new Designer Tab: The new Designer tab helps make the GUI designer easier to discover and use. Each of the editing commands is spelled out and the Preview GUI button is more prominent. For those who are not familiar with the Preview command, it allows you to view […]
Activating Your New Subscription
[UPDATED: 8/15/2014] So, you just got a new subscription to a SAPIEN product. You’ve run the installer and you’ve launched the product and you were presented with a screen like this: Where do you go from here? Well, since you already have a subscription number, you can pretty much ignore the buttons on the top […]
PowerShell.org: New tools in my toolbox
The Jason Helmick over at PowerShell.org wrote an interesting article about his PowerShell toolbox: New tools in my toolbox! In the article, he mentions PrimalScript, PowerShell Studio and VersionRecall 2014: “I’ve used PrimalScript for a very long time and I admit I’m a fan of SAPIEN Technologies. They have earned my respect over the years […]
PowerShell Studio 2014: What’s New?
PowerShell Studio 2014 has been released and there are a lot of new features and changes packed into this version. In this series, we will cover what’s new in the new version PowerShell Studio 2014. We Doubled the Bits! PowerShell Studio 2014 now comes in a 64 bit flavor! Does this mean the 64 bit […]
Spotlight on the ToolTip Control
The Spotlight on Controls series describes the controls, that is, the objects in the System.Windows.Forms namespace, so you can use them effectively when building GUI apps in PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript. Each post focuses on one control and lists its most important properties, methods, and events, including the default event that PowerShell Studio adds to […]
