We have been asked this question several times. Does PrimalForms use WPF? For those of you who are not familiar with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), it is Microsoft’s new graphical interface that uses DirectX and your graphics card to render the Window controls. The short answer is: No. But often we ask in return: Is […]
Category: PrimalForms
Back From TechEd: Why should I use PowerShell to create Windows Forms Applications?
There was a lot of interest about PrimalForms during this year’s TechEd. Rumor has it the Microsoft PowerShell Team even demonstrated PrimalForms in one of their presentations. We were very happy to talk to with our users during the show. One of the questions we were asked was: Why should I use PowerShell to create […]
Announcing: PrimalForms 2011 – The Dedicated PowerShell Editor
Today we are officially announcing PrimalForms 2011. Some of you may have noticed vague mentions of PrimalForms in our previous Feature Peek 2011 blogs without explanation. So what is PrimalForms 2011? PrimalForms 2011 is a dedicated PowerShell editor which will replace PrimalForms 2009. This isn’t just a simple name change, it’s an evolutionary change. PrimalForms […]
Scripting Toolkit ISO available for download
For some time now, SAPIEN has been distributing a free “Scripting Toolkit” CD at various trade shows and events. This CD contains copies of all of our free tools, trial versions of our paid applications, samples of our ebooks and training videos and other cool stuff. All of this stuff is available individually for download […]
Feature Peek 2011: Snippet Editor
Feature Peek 2011 will consist of a series of blogs that will provide a sneak peek of new features which will appear in the 2011 edition of PrimalScript Studio products. In this blog we will provide you with a sneak peek at the new Snippet Editor tool for PrimalScript 2011 and Visual PowerShell 2011. (Fig […]
Microsoft Scripting Guys showing PrimalForms Community Edition
The Scripting Guys over at Microsoft have started a series on how to use PrimalForms Community Edition for various tasks. Have a look at their first installment here: http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/03/01/hey-scripting-guy-march-1-2010.aspx Make sure to give Ed Wilson a shout if you like it and if there are any specific items you would like to see covered.
PrimalForms 2009: The Packager and Command line Arguments
Per forum request, this blog provides examples of how to access the packager’s command line arguments as well as provide some useful functions to parse the contents. These examples apply to PrimalForms 2009’s Packager and as well as PrimalScript 2009’s packager. The package’s script host provides a convenient string variable named $CommandLine. This variable contains […]
How safe are my scripts in PrimalScript/PrimalForms packages?
This is a question that has come up a lot lately. Our Script Packager used in PrimalScript 2009 and PrimalForms 2009 stores the scripts and additional data files encrypted and in some cases, compressed inside the executable.Some formats create temporary files and use the original Windows tool to run a script; others execute directly from […]
PrimalForms 2009: Exported Script Formatting
In order to start the planning stages of the next version of PrimalForms, we decided to conduct a review the current version. After gathering user feedback on the subject, we concluded that the script formatting needed a makeover to make it easier for the users to read the final script. In order to address user […]
PrimalForms 2009: OnApplicationLoad Function
Recently on the forums we had a user who wanted to know why he couldn’t initialize the form controls within the OnApplicationLoad function. Seeing how this can result in some confusion, we would like to elaborate on the subject. The purpose of OnApplicationLoad is to initialize any dependencies necessary for your form script to run, […]
