Take advantage of 30% off Black Friday through Cyber Monday! This offer includes all new perpetual license purchases and eligible maintenance renewals. Visit our SAPIEN Store using the promotional code SAPIENSALE to take advantage of this discount. This sale is limited to…
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In this article, our guest blogger—Brent Challis—provides a different approach to retrieving the correct Documents folder.
The Problem
One of the problems working with multiple computers is that the Documents folder path could be:
C:\Users\<user>\OneDrive\Documentsor C:\Users\<user>\Documents
There are many…
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In this article, our guest blogger—Brent Challis—provides an example of how to emulate the Linux sudo (super user do) command in PowerShell.
I am confident that I am not the only person to experience the problem of opening a PowerShell…
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As a follow-up to our Advanced PowerShell Functions: Begin to Process to End article, the following article will dive deeper into the CmdletBinding attribute.
Let’s start with defining a function:
Function Test-ScriptBlock
{
[CmdletBinding()]
Param
(
[Parameter(ValueFromPipeline)]
[int[]]
$Numbers…
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The last article in our PowerShell Studio Project Series follows Forms and Multi-Form Projects.
Form
Form projects allow for objects or connections to be created before the initialization of the form; with a standalone form, you cannot initialize anything before the form.…
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The last installment in our series about the SAPIEN Script Packager introduces the Custom Build Command settings.
This process is pretty straightforward. Any specified Pre-build command is executed before packaging takes place. So if you need to copy dot-sourced files…
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We examine Version Information in this post as we continue our series about the SAPIEN Script Packager settings.
File Properties
Version Information is stored in the resources of an executable file. A user can right-click on a file, select Properties,…
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If there’s ever anything you want to alter when it comes to your SAPIEN Technologies user experience, submitting a Feature Request is the first step to making it happen.
The process of making a feature request was discussed in a…
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Our Script Packaging series continues with an introduction to the Script Packager Credentials feature.
These days modern security mechanisms frequently work without passwords or user IDs. Instead, biometrics, access cards, trusted connections, etc., are usually far better mechanisms for authentication.…
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In this installment of our Script Packaging series, we review the options for adding restrictions when running your packaged script.
Sometimes running an application on a platform that is not supported or under conditions that are not secure can do…
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