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How well do you know PrimalScript or PrimalForms? Do you have the writing skills necessary to write a detailed technical manual for our products? If so, SAPIEN is looking for someone to write a clear, understandable and detailed manual for our products. We are really looking for people with significant writing experience, a good knowledge of our products and a willingness to delve even deeper into them. You will be working directly with our developers to create the manuals for the next versions of our products! Become the authority on SAPIEN software! If you are interested, submit a resume and…   More »

You have created the mother of all PowerShell scripts and spent endless hours honing its performance and catching error conditions. Now that you are rolling out this gem of a script to your users, you find out that they don't take to the command prompt as you do. You have also found out that some others even go and edit your skillfully crafted script and are now blaming you for errors. You can avoid all of that by converting your command line script to a Windows Forms application with PrimalForms 2011. Create a GUI version of your PowerShell script to make the…   More »

All SAPIEN Software has docking panels of some kind or another. Combine a multi-tabbed environment like PrimalScript with docked multi-tabbed panels and it can get a bit overwhelming if you dragged your output windows somewhere by accident and can't get it back to where you think it should be. Let's look at the overall layout of PrimalScript:   As soon as you start dragging a panel group or a panel the docking guides appear as shown above.You can drag an entire group of tabbed panels by grabbing the active panel by its caption as shown above. If you only want…   More »

You really need to make PowerShell your top New Year’s Resolution because 2012 is *the* year of PowerShell.  Microsoft is putting it front and center in its Windows Management Framework 3.0 which is due sometime in 2012.  And you need to be ready for it.  Sure, you need to put exercise and a good diet at the top of your priorities, too, but you need to feed and exercise your brain as well.  Keeping your brain in shape will lead to job security, a fat wallet, and incessant praise from your colleagues and your end users.  Well, maybe not…   More »

Wow! Has another year gone buy already? It seems as if it was only yesterday that I wrote a Welcome 2011 blog post. 2011 saw quite a bit of activity from SAPIEN. New versions of all of our software products were released. Digital download versions of our videos became available. We continued and improved our support for iOS. So what is in store for 2012? Well I can tell you but then I would have to send the SAPIEN minions to do terrible things to you! Just kidding! About the minions... Seriously though, I would not want to ruin any…   More »

If you package your script with PrimalScript's or PrimalForm's packager you have the option of including a manifest. This manifest can be used to make your executable file prompt for elevation when executed. It's easy to spot the difference between an application that will prompt for elevation and one that does not by looking at the icon: Now, imagine the surprise if you get a shield on your icon and an elevation prompt when you run a file you packaged without a manifest. As you can see from the image below it's all in the name: I simply took the…   More »

Is your form suffering from shrinkage? Nobody likes it when your form shrinks to sizes where you can no longer see any controls. How embarrassing! Well there is hope! Stop embarrassing shrinkage with our simple solution! With a single application you will impress instead of depress! The PrimalForms Solution: Click on your form in the designer and alter the MinimumSize property in the Property Pane. Yes, that’s right! You can specify the minimum size your form will shrink to. Enter the minimum width and height and you’re done! And no more shrinkage problems! But what if you have the opposite…   More »

You wanted to know what's new in the 2011 versions of PrimalScript and PrimalForms. Please check out the brochures we created here: http://www.sapien.com/assets/pdf/ReasonsToUpgradeToPrimalScript2011.pdf and here: http://www.sapien.com/assets/pdf/ReasonsToUpgradeToPrimalForms2011.pdf   These will tell you a little bit about the products and also have a grid comparing them to previous versions.…   More »

Look to the right. There is a  new poll. We are curious if you use the Start Page that usually comes up first when you start PrimalScript or PrimalForms. Come on, it's just one click, "Yes", "No"  or, if you have never seen it, "What start page?" Thanks! Oh, and feel free to comment if you have any suggestions or gripes.…   More »

This month we are celebrating our 25th year in business and *you* are receiving the gifts! Everything in our online catalog—software, books, DVD, even our fabulous Infiniti pens (as featured in Battlestar Galactica)—is 25% off retail prices. For our silver anniversary, we thought about giving you something made of silver but then we realized that you would probably enjoy upgrading to our 2011 versions and saving some money instead. If you haven’t checked out all the fabulous, new features and tools that our 2011 versions have, you are definitely missing the boat! This would be the perfect time to upgrade.…   More »