PowerShell Studio 2017 is released! PowerShell Studio 2017 is included as part of the regular update cycle for our subscribers.
What’s New?
In this article, we will introduce you to the new additions and changes in this release. As you know we don’t hold back major features just for major releases, for example we recently added the Performance Monitor feature. We will continue to include big features as the year goes on.
Updated Control Helper Functions
We updated the control helper functions so that they are PSScriptAnalyzer complaint. Helper functions are functions that help you work with GUI controls, which are automatically inserted into your script.
To comply with PSScriptAnalyzer’s best practices, we replace the helper functions’ unapproved Load verb with the approved Update verb.
Update-DataGridView -DataGridView $datagridview1 -Item (Get-Process) |
We also updated a number of form templates and control sets to reflect these changes.
Updated Editor Font and Coloring Settings Dialog
We added a language selection to the Editor Font and Coloring Settings dialog (Options->Editor->Font and Color). The dialog now distinguishes the syntax coloring for a plain text file from a PowerShell file.
Now when you save a preset, it will include the settings for all the languages.
New Office 2016 Themes
We added two new application themes to PowerShell Studio:
Office 2016 Colorful
Office 2016 Dark
PrimalSense Performance Improvement
We improved PowerShell Studio’s PrimalSense response time with this release. You may notice the improvement when triggering PrimalSense for .NET Types or when using general code completion.
Please continue providing your feedback. Many of the new features included in the service builds are suggestions from users like you. Therefore, if you have any suggestions or feature requests, please share them with us on our Wish List and Feature Requests forum.
My feedback? Still without a doubt the most productive IDE I have worked with in 20 years! Keep up the great work! And if you really want a challenge, how about a WPF version for studio forms development?
Congrats on the new release! One minor nitpick David — in your Syntax Coloring screenshot, it seems you’re not using the proper case for “PowerShell” in the language combo box.
Thank you, Kirk! The casing is now fixed for the next build.
Thank you for the feedback! If you have further requests, please feel free to post it on our Feature Request forum:
https://www.sapien.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=9
I just wanted to say thank you. A short while ago, I was renewing my PrimalSQL and also learning (with great disappointment), that I had missed my window for renewing PowerShell Studio. There was a nice rate they gave me to start again and I’ve been using it since. Then just recently, a wonderful surprise, for a reasonable price I was able to upgrade to have the full Sapien Software Suite 2017 – I was completely amazed. I never in my wildest dreams thought that I could fully own such a wonderful set of tools. You guys have truly surpassed yourself. Although I have other IDEs for things like log reading and Visual Studio stuff, my all time favorite is PowerShell Studio. Thanks again, you folks at Sapien sure know how to keep customers happy.
There is no indication of how one gets to these setting. New user.