Its that time of year again… Tech-Ed Time! Of course, SAPIEN will be in attendance, will you? If you are attending Tech-Ed 2014, drop by our booth (#434) and say hello to Alex (our CTO), David (lead developer of PowerShell Studio) and June (Lead web technologies developer). They will be more that happy to give […]
Category: PrimalScript
May Special: Get VersionRecall 2014 For 50% Off!
Buy VersionRecall 2014 at 50% Off When You Purchase or Upgrade PrimalScript or PowerShell Studio But wait—there’s more: with the purchase or upgrade of a license, we will give you a one-year subscription for both pieces of software! It’s a G-R-E-A-T deal! You already know about PrimalScript and PowerShell Studio—two, well-established, top-of-the-class ISE’s—but have you […]
I already have the ISE, do I need… ?
PrimalScript, PowerShell Studio or any other tool in the PowerShell universe you can think of? We get this question a lot, so I thought I’d give you a few highlights. First and foremost, this is not a game of ISE or not. The ISE is an important tool for your everyday work and you should […]
Don’t always start from scratch
We use scripting to automate tasks that would otherwise be very repetitive. However, when it comes to creating a script most users start with a blank slate, an empty file. Then they hunt for copy and paste sources to start and the script fills with bits and pieces from other places. Next time a new […]
VersionRecall integration with PrimalScript and PowerShell Studio
The folks over at PowerShell.org recently published a review of VersionRecall (http://powershell.org/wp/2014/04/15/review-sapien-versionrecall/) There was one paragraph that took us a little bit by surprise: “Unfortunately, PowerShell Studio doesn’t seem to recognize VersionRecall as a source control provider (at least, it didn’t show up when I tried to configure source control in PowerShell Studio). That means […]
From script to server – Deploying solutions with PrimalScript 2014 (Part 4)
Welcome back. As we previously discussed, PrimalScript 2014 has a few new options for the script packager and has added features for creating MSI databases and deploying your script solutions. If you have missed the previous three installments, use the links below to catch up. From script to server – Deploying solutions with PrimalScript 2014 […]
From script to server – Deploying solutions with PrimalScript 2014 (Part 3)
The last time we looked at the new installer option in PrimalScript 2014. You can find the article here: http://www.sapien.com/blog/2014/04/07/from-script-to-server-deploying-solutions-with-primalscript-2014-part-2 If you look at the deploy tab again, you will see a “Deployment” group. These functions will help you distribute your solutions to your target audience. First lets look at the settings. There are […]
From script to server – Deploying solutions with PrimalScript 2014 (Part 2)
Last time we looked at the new packager options in PrimalScript 2014. You can find the article here: http://www.sapien.com/blog/2014/03/25/from-script-to-server-deploying-solutions-with-primalscript-2014-part-1 If you look at the deploy tab again, you see an installer group that was not an option in any of the previous PrimalScript versions This new feature allows you to wrap your scripts, packaged executables, […]
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 […]
PrimalScript 2014: VBScript gets a debug console
One of the many things on our users wish list was the ability to change variables while debugging. While we where looking to solve that, we also looked for a way to call functions while stopped at a breakpoint or execute any arbitrary code that may help facilitate testing and debugging. Since we already have […]
