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PrimalPad gets upgraded with code folding, new languages and the ability to run scripts. With this new 2011 version of the ever popular Notepad replacement you get support for code folding in VBScript, JScript and PowerShell. Because some of you asked nicely, we also added SQL and Python to the languages supported by PrimalPad's syntax coloring. Last but not least, you can now run your script files from within PrimalPad. While it doesn't have PrimalScript's output capture abilities, it still works pretty well for some quick hit and run scripting. The tools menu is where you make it all happen.…   More »

You may have noticed that we recently redesigned our entire web site. Multiple URLs where combined under the www.sapien.com home and we are pretty happy with the result. However, that means that some old blog articles link to pages which no longer exist. The most common question we get is where the Community Tools went and if we no longer provide any free tools. Don't worry, they are still here. You can simply navigate to www.sapien.com,  click on the "Downloads" link on top and sign into our downloads area. Look at the "Free tools" folder and you will find all…   More »

The SAPIEN Scripting Toolkit is a CD filled with all sorts of tools and information that is useful for anyone who is working with scripting languages. Let's break down the contents for you... Free tools - A copy of all of our free scripting tools (except for iPowerShell) is on the CD. A link to iPowerShell on the iTunes store is also included. A list of all of those free tools can be found here. You can also download the Scripting Toolkit ISO file at that link. 45 day trial versions of all of our paid software. Besides PrimalScript, SAPIEN…   More »

iPowerShell is SAPIEN's FREE iPhone/iPad PowerShell reference tool. It is available from the Apple iTunes store. You can easily download the most current version by searching for iPowerShell in your iTunes application or click on this link to connect to the iPowerShell page directly in iTunes.…   More »

... Android, Blackberry, Windows 7 Mobile or Palm? The simple answer is, unfortunately, no. But we have started looking into some of these other mobile device platforms, specifically Android and Windows 7 Mobile. There are so many cool and interesting features we want to add to iPowerShell, that it is taking up all of our current mobile platform development resources. If you are already an Android or Windows 7 Mobile developer, maybe we can work together to get iPowerShell out faster on those platforms. Contact info@sapien.com and let us know!…   More »

For some time now, SAPIEN has been distributing a free "Scripting Toolkit" CD at various trade shows and events. This CD contains copies of all of our free tools, trial versions of our paid applications, samples of our ebooks and training videos and other cool stuff. All of this stuff is available individually for download on our various sites. But because you have asked for it, we have made available the ISO image that we use to burn all of this cool stuff onto CD. So with one (rather large) download, you can get the full CD's worth of scripting…   More »

PowerShell 2.0 has added the ability to export and import objects and store them as CSV files. CSV (Comma Separated Values) files have been a common file format since they where first used around 1967 on IBM mainframes and have been in constant use since then. If you need to edit CSV files most people use Microsoft Excel, which registers as the default editor for the .CSV extension. This is fine on your desktop or laptop computer, but when was the last time you found a Windows 2008 R2 server with Microsoft Office installed? At that point, your friendly neighborhood…   More »

The Scripting Guys over at Microsoft have started a series on how to use PrimalForms Community Edition for various tasks. Have a look at their first installment here: http://blogs.technet.com/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/03/01/hey-scripting-guy-march-1-2010.aspx Make sure to give Ed Wilson a shout if you like it and if there are any specific items you would like to see covered.…   More »

iPowerShell v.2 is finished and is now available at the Apple app store (iTunes link) for download. Don't know what iPowerShell is? iPowerShell is an easy to use reference tool for users of Microsoft's PowerShell scripting language for use on the iPhone or iPod Touch. It contains full descriptions of each and every core PowerShell Version 2 cmdlet, their syntax, parameters and examples of proper usage. It also contains the complete set of "about item" help topics as well as provider and alias help. iPowerShell includes a quick search function that allows the user to type in partial search terms…   More »

Our Powershell Help tool has been a favorite download for quite some time now. The built-in help command in the Powershell console is helpful if you need just some quick lookup, but for browsing and reading the console just isn't good enough. The CHM file Microsoft released is a pretty nice graphical way of getting help for the built-in cmdlets but it's a closed file and information for third party or even other Microsoft snapins is not available and cannot be added. Cmdlets organized by popular verbs This new version of our popular Powershell help tool allows importing any xml…   More »