How many times have you worked with Regular Expressions and forgotten what expression denoted what? Oftentimes I need to search online to figure out what basic expressions to use or end up using another method. For this reason we are introducing a new tool that makes regular expressions more accessible to the rest of us: […]
Category: Windows PowerShell
New Control Set: TextBox – Watermark
Recently in the forums we had a request on how to create a textbox with a watermark. What is a textbox with a watermark you ask? It is a textbox that displays hint information within the textbox using a lighter color. For example, a textbox that accepts a username, may have a watermark as follows: […]
Onsite PowerShell Training Offered Worldwide
You heard it right! Yes, worldwide. SAPIEN’s onsite PowerShell training classes have been offered for several years and have now been updated to include PowerShell v3 and as much as is known about v4. These are intense 4- and 5-day classes that will take you from novice to expert or, if your team already has […]
iPowerShell Pro: How to select, edit and execute shared scripts on your server
Continuing with our series of iPowerShell Pro V3 features brings us to the Scripts button on the enhanced mobile PowerShell Web Access (PSWA) console. To start off, you need to make sure that your server has access to the same cloud based folder that you are connected to on iPowerShell Pro. Make sure that the […]
iPowerShell Pro: How to setup and manage scripts with cloud drive services
iPowerShell Pro V3 enables script editing and updating scripts on the server. We have a Script Management service that helps you edit, copy, move and delete scripts and folders that are on your servers through connected cloud services. Follow the steps below to connect to your cloud services and manage your scripts. First select the […]
iPowerShell Pro: How to add manually generated Alias tables
iPowerShell Pro uses a simple text file for listing Aliases in the Alias module. Each entry is a single line. The “alias” comes first, followed by a space and the cmdlet name followed by a CRLF. Please use all lowercase for the filename. Examples are shown below: ? Where-Object ac Add-Content Save the file as […]
iPowerShell Pro: How to add manually generated About_Help files
The Powershell About Help file is a simple 80 character wide .txt file with a CRLF at the end of each line of text. Section names are typically all in caps and left justified. Section content is indented 4 spaces. Section names and content are separated by a single CRLF while sections are separated from […]
iPowerShell Pro: How to add manually generated help files
iPowerShell Pro uses two mandatory files to display cmdlet help: the PowerShell Help Formatted XML file and an automatically generated .index file. We also use three optional files: a user-generated .info file and two user created .png files. The .xml file (required) Properly formatted PowerShell Help files can be created manually using an XML editor […]
iPowerShell Pro: How to get your initial data sets
iPowerShell Pro initially ships without any cmdlets, etc. You should connect to Wi-Fi to download the initial data set, as the V3 cmdlet set is quite extensive and can take a couple of minutes to download. Downloading the data onto your device: Tap on the Cmdlets Service. You will be prompted to “Get Cmdlets”. Press […]
Spotlight on Controls: The Versatile Tag Property
You may not be aware that each WinForm Control has a Tag property which can be very useful in certain circumstances. Why use the Tag Property? Use the Tag property when you need to associate an object or store state information to a particular control. This ability to assign any object to the property, be […]
