In the last service release of PowerShell Studio 2012 (v3.0.8) a new custom control called ProgressBarOverlay was introduced. This new progress control functions exactly like the typical progress bar, with the added ability of displaying a text percentage over the progress bar. Adding a ProgressBarOverlay Control: Like the typical progress bar, you can add the […]
Category: Windows PowerShell
PowerShell Studio 2012: Form Recovery
Over time we have had various users who needed to alter the form but lost the original pff file. These users only had an exported GUI script. Naturally they would ask us if they could recover the original form from the exported script. The only solution was to recreate the form by hand and manually […]
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Microsoft is putting PowerShell at the front and center of Windows 8 and you (and your future career) need to be up to speed—NOW! This month, we are going to help you get there with a super collection of everything you need to go from PowerShell newbie to expert. For a *hugely* reduced price, you […]
Introducing the PowerShell Profile Editor
PowerShell’s profiles make setting up your work environment a bit easier, allowing you to pre-load your most common snapins or modules, define functions, set variables and whatever else you need on startup. However, since there are quite a number of profiles, potentially one for each host, one for all users, one for each user, one […]
SAPIEN Returns to the PowerScripting Podcast
Join us live on the PowerScripting Podcast! Ferdinand Rios (Chief Executive Officer) and David Corrales (Lead for PowerShell Studio) will be discussing PowerShell Studio 2012, PrimalScript 2012 and iPowerShell. The live podcast will begin at 9:30 PM EST time, Thursday August 2. http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/ Don’t miss it!
Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and PowerShell V3
Some of you started sending us emails asking about support for the new versions of Windows as well as PowerShell version 3. Of course all current SAPIEN software will support Windows 8 and Server 2012 whenever they are released. We are continuously testing on these new platforms to make sure our software works on these […]
WinForms Control Reference for PowerShell
We are happy to release the “WinForms Control Reference for PowerShell” guide. This guide provides you with a quick reference for the WinForm controls in PowerShell Studio. The document contains a list of all the important properties, methods, and events that you should be familiar with when creating GUIs in PowerShell. How can I […]
Spotlight on the StatusBar Control
The “Spotlight on Controls” series focuses on a single WinForms control in PowerShell Studio 2012, details the important Properties, Methods, and Events of the control and demonstrates how to utilize the control. Most of the information about the controls is still applicable to previous versions of PrimalForms. Last time we took a look at the […]
PowerShell Studio 2012 Review
I stumbled upon the following review of PowerShell Studio 2012 and I thought I share it with our readers. The review was written by Robert C. Cain who according to his bio is a Microsoft MVP for SQL and has been in the IT business for over 20 years. Arcane Code Review of PowerShell Studio […]
Single form or multiple dialogs?
In this installment of our series about user interface design for administrators we explore the transformation of a command line script to a Windows application. We start with a simple little script as shown below: It just prompts for a computer name on the command line, uses that information for WMI query and outputs the […]
