We have recently been asked how the tray icon of a script packaged with PowerShell Studio or PrimalScript can be changed dynamically. This requires access to the NotifyIcon object, which was previously not accessible from the PowerShell code within a…
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The latest versions of the Windows Application engines supplied with the Script Packager in PrimalScript 2023 (8.1.187) and SAPIEN PowerShell Studio 2023 (5.8.226) contain a little new feature you may find handy.
If your script uses the ‘Write-Progress’ cmdlet, the…
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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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You already know that using credentials in your code is very much frowned upon. Every security expert will tell you that there are now plenty of other ways to verify access beyond user IDs and passwords, and you should always…
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PrimalScript 7.6.143 was released on August 5th, 2020, and it includes support for PowerShell 7.0.3. We have started to support what was known as PowerShell Core with 7.0.0 and added debugging and packaging functionality for this new PowerShell version some…
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PrimalScript 2020 (7.7.139) adds PowerShell 7 support. While we have had the ability to run scripts in a PowerShell 6 or 7 console for some time, support for new language elements, packaging, etc. was not implemented yet.
Now that PowerShell…
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In a previous article we demonstrated a number of script packager solutions. In this post we show other ways to provide information to a script executable.
The sample script is used to map a network drive to an existing shared…
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This article presents the instructional video for our recent post: Four ways to package a non-GUI PowerShell script as an executable file.
The video briefly covers the four script engine options:
SAPIEN PowerShell Vx Host (Command Line)SAPIEN PowerShell Vx Host…
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The latest in our video series demonstrates how to to create a Windows Service to kill a Solitaire process using SAPIEN’s PrimalScript 2018.
In this short video we show you how to build and install a PowerShell Windows Service, including:…
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Not too long ago we added a collection of icons to PrimalScript and PowerShell Studio to give you some more options for your packaged executable files: Stock Icons for your Script Packages
We are very pleased to announce that we…
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