We are proud to announce another new product for the new 2009 tool lineup: ChangeVue 2009 Using source control is an indispensable safety net for any professional developer, regardless of programming language or file size. Not only does source control provide an inherent backup mechanism by storing versions of any file you add to a […]
Category: Windows Scripting News
How to become a SAPIEN beta tester
We are preparing quite a number of new products and versions for 2009, so naturally we also want to test these products in a live environment. If you are developing scripts for administrative purposes, do any type of web development, database work or maybe just are are the go-to guy in your IT department, we […]
SAPIEN Announces PrimalMerge 2009
We are proud to announce PrimalMerge 2009 as one of the new tools in SAPIEN’s 2009 product lineup. PrimalMerge 2009 provides an indispensable tool for anyone working with source code, any type of text file or even just files and folders. Here are just some of the features: – Compare individual files or entire folders […]
Free PrimalForms tool for PowerShell released
We are pleased to announce that the free GUI builder tool for PowerShell is now available for download. Head on over to http://www.primaltools.com/freetools to get it. (Registrations with a valid email address is required) The tool works with PowerShell V1 and the current V2 CTP. Our very own Jeffery Hicks created some samples that are […]
Congratulations Hal Rottenberg
It’s that time of year again when Microsoft announces its newest MVPs. I’m happy to report that Hal Rottenberg has finally received this honor. Not only does Hal hold down a pretty serious day job, he is co-host of the popular PowerScripting Podcast and the community director for PowerShellCommunity.org. You can also find Hal on […]
Who owns the file?
Browsing through some forum or newsgroup recently I noticed that the task of getting or setting file or folder ownership is not trivial from a script. I put together a small COM component that does the trick and it is available for free from here: http://www.primalscript.com/Free_Tools/index.asp The usage is pretty simple and self explanatory. Only […]
New ActiveXPosh version
A new version of ActiveXPosh was uploaded to our server. You can download it from http://www.primalscript.com/Free_Tools/index.asp Aside from some minor fixes, it includes a new method on the interface called ‘GetValue’. With that function you can easily get the string value of some variable or property without going through the output buffer. An example would […]
What’s in a manifest?
The last blog entry about script packages and elevation prompted Don Jones to ask if we consider adding a template to PrimalScript or even a manifest builder. Truth is, manifests are so simple that this hardly seems necessary. Here is the manifest file I usually use as a template: ftp://ftp.sapien.com/manifest.xml There really are only three […]
Script packages and elevation with manifests
Microsoft Windows Vista and Server 2008 have become a lot more protective of certain areas of the registry and the file system. Take an innocent little script that create a URL shortcut in a folder under C:\Program Files. Not really a problem under XP, but under Window Vista this will fail: Fortunately Windows Vista […]
Podcast interview and prizes
I was honored to be interviewed for Jonathan Walz’ & Hal Rottenberg’s podcast last night. You can find their podcast here: http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/ Plenty of folks showed up in the chat room while Jon and Hal where recording their podcast and asked questions about PrimalScript. As promised everyone with a question is a winner and below […]
