The Spotlight on Controls series describes the controls, that is, the objects in the System.Windows.Forms namespace, so you can use them effectively when building GUI apps in PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript. Each post focuses on one control and lists its most important properties, methods, and events, including the default event that PowerShell Studio adds to […]
Category: Windows PowerShell
Benchmarking Scripts: Strings
The latest build of PrimalScript 2011 has a new little toy built in. If you run a script from within PrimalScript, it will time the execution and print the elapsed time after the script has finished in the output window. While this isn’t exactly a profiler of any kind, it can be helpful to evaluate […]
Spotlight on the Form Control
The Spotlight on Controls series describes the controls, that is, the objects in the System.Windows.Forms namespace, so you can use them effectively when building GUI apps in PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript. Each post focuses on one control and lists its most important properties, methods, and events, including the default event that PowerShell Studio adds to […]
Spotlight on Controls: Common Properties and Methods
The Spotlight on Controls series is designed to teach beginning GUI developers about controls, the WinForms (System.Windows.Forms) objects that you use in a GUI application. Each article feature a different WinForms control and introduces its most frequently used properties, methods, and events. Unlike the MSDN reference pages, the examples are written in Windows PowerShell, so […]
PowerShell User Groups
SAPIEN is back from TechEd 2011 in Atlanta, GA and what a great time we had!! Thanks to everyone who took the time to come by and see what we have to offer. One of the many things we came away with was the importance of user groups. These groups spark new ideas and encourage growth within the PowerShell […]
SAPIEN PowerShell Training
Time is running out for our Early Bird sign up! May 15th is the last day to sign up for SAPIEN’s PowerShell Training for the low price of $2000. After May 15th the cost returns to $2500 per student. Even at this price this is the deal of the year. Live PowerShell training, in a small […]
Designing Charts for PowerShell
Recently a blog post titled Charting with PowerShell was brought to my attention. The blog article demonstrates how to create graphs in PowerShell using WinForms. After reading this article, I thought it would be much easier to have the option to visually design your charts instead of coding it by hand. Therefore in the last […]
PowerShell users getting the blues
PrimalScript 2011 hosts embedded Command and PowerShell consoles. One complaint we received was that the PowerShell console’s background was black rather than the familiar blue. We didn’t want to deprive PowerShell users of their wish for more color in their lives so we set the default to blue in service build 6.0.133. If you had […]
PowerShell Desktop Wallpapers
One of the unsung heroes on the SAPIEN Team is our graphic artist, Maricela. Whether you look at SAPIEN Press book covers, product icons, web graphics, splash screens in products, start page banners, box shots on the store or get a flyer at a tradeshow, you can be certain she created whatever graphics are involved. […]
Tic Tac Plebius: A PowerShell Game
In order to celebrate the release of PrimalForms 2011, I’m releasing a game I created called: Tic Tac Plebius Just as the name suggests, the game is based on Tic Tac Toe, but with a SAPIEN twist. For those of you who are not familiar with Plebius, he is our beloved Super Scripting Monkey mascot. […]
