{"id":133,"date":"2007-05-16T22:50:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T06:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testblog.sapien.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/16\/switching-from-vbscript-to-powershell-just-got-easier\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T22:50:15","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T06:50:15","slug":"switching-from-vbscript-to-powershell-just-got-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/switching-from-vbscript-to-powershell-just-got-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching from VBScript to PowerShell Just Got Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re pleased to announce the release of a new Snippets pack for SAPIEN PrimalScript: VBScript to PowerShell Conversion Snippets. No, they won&#8217;t convert your scripts for you &#8211; they help convert your brain! Just install the Snippets using the simple directions provided. Then,&nbsp;open PrimalScript and start a new Windows PowerShell script (PS1 file). Finally, type any VBScript function or statement name (on a blank line) and press Ctrl+J. Poof! You&#8217;ll see how to perform that same task in PowerShell, with a short code snippet that you can edit to suit your needs. You can also drag the Snippets in from PrimalScript&#8217;s Snippets Browser. Installing the new Snippets is easy, and they&#8217;re even usable without PrimalScript &#8211; just open them in Notepad to see how a specific VBScript feature works in PowerShell. There are 119 Snippets in all, and they&#8217;re available for immediate download at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scriptingoutpost.com\/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=SFT-SNIPVBPS\">http:\/\/www.scriptingoutpost.com\/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=SFT-SNIPVBPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re pleased to announce the release of a new Snippets pack for SAPIEN PrimalScript: VBScript to PowerShell Conversion Snippets. No, they won&#8217;t convert your scripts for you &#8211; they help convert your brain! Just install the Snippets using the simple directions provided. Then,&nbsp;open PrimalScript and start a new Windows PowerShell script (PS1 file). Finally, type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-news","category-vbscript","category-windows-powershell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}