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 […]
Category: Windows PowerShell
MVP All Stars in Helsinki
What’s the future of Active Directory? What support can we expect for containers in Windows Server and client? Is PowerShell 5.0 complete? While most PowerShell scripters are focused on the upcoming PowerShell Summit Europe in Stockholm and PowerShell Asia Conference in Singapore, some of the finest minds were gathering in Helsinki for the MVP All-Stars […]
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 […]
Get Commands in a Nested Module
Many Windows PowerShell modules include nested modules. In fact, some of your favorite cmdlets might be in a nested module, but you wouldn’t typically know it. Nested modules are reusable, so you can repackage and use nested modules independently and in other modules, unless, of course, they require something in the parent module. For example, […]
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 […]
PowerShell GUIs: Where do I start?
Follow @juneb_get_help I’ve been using Windows PowerShell since the very first version of Monad in 2005, but PowerShell-based applications with a graphic user interface (GUI) are a whole new world. Instead of thinking of cmdlets and parameters or properties and methods, you need to think in object events. And because there’s no console with .ps1xml-directed […]
PowerShell Studio 2015: Service Release with PowerShell V5 Support
We are happy to announce the release of the latest service build of PowerShell Studio 2015 (v4.2.89). You will find that this service build is pack with new features and enhancements. We listened to your feedback and strived to improve your user experience and productivity. We also made improvements to PowerShell Studio’s memory usage and […]
