So you downloaded PowerShell Studio and designed the latest and greatest PowerShell application. Much blood, sweat, and coffee went into endless hours of pushing controls pixel by pixel, sizing things correctly, testing and debugging. And finally, you are ready! Ready…
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We are all creatures of habit. People who write code are even more so because we have copy-and-paste. As a result, any code you write usually reuses the same variable names.
For a counter, you use $ctr; for a flag,…
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No matter how carefully you lay out your plans and craft your code, you will always find situations where you need to hunt for a bug. It can be a simple logic flaw, an ill-placed copy and paste of code…
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PrimalScript, PowerShell Studio or any other tool in the PowerShell universe you can think of?
We get this question a lot, so I thought I’d give you a few highlights. First and foremost, this is not a game of ISE…
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The folks over at PowerShell.org recently published a review of VersionRecall (http://powershell.org/wp/2014/04/15/review-sapien-versionrecall/)
There was one paragraph that took us a little bit by surprise:
“Unfortunately, PowerShell Studio doesn’t seem to recognize VersionRecall as a source control provider (at least, it…
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We are proud to announce that VersionRecall 2014 has been released and is now available for download from our web site at http://www.sapien.com/software/versionrecall.
If you have been evaluating the community preview version, please make sure to read all the way…
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Version control is a necessity for most, if not all, software development teams. When you work with a large number of individuals plugging away at the same code you just need some mechanism to channel access and preserve previous known-good…
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Syntax coloring for programming languages was originally introduced as a visual aid to assist developers in assessing the syntactical correctness of code. Unlike the squiggly red or green underlines in Microsoft Word colors indicate validation rather than error. So while…
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While we are adapting and verifying all our bits and pieces for PowerShell V3 and Windows 8, we sometimes stumble across little changes from PowerShell V2 behavior. Most of the time this is pretty simple and we can adapt our…
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While investigating a bug report about ChangeVue’s installer we stumbled across a discrepancy with PowerShell’s PSModulePath environment variable.
On a virgin Windows 7 machine the environment variable is set to “C:\windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\” via a System Environment Variable.There is no default that…
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