Posts Tagged ‘Packager’
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 by Alex Riedel
We get this question every week: Why can I not include my data files, secondary scripts, modules, other executables etc. with the packaged executable and have it unpack them when I run it? If you have been a SAPIEN customer for a few years you may remember that we had this feature in the packager until the 2012 version. The predominant operating system at the time was Windows XP and this worked fine. With the advent of Windows Vista and Windows 7 we received this question more and more: “Why does my packaged script no longer work?. You need…
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Tags: MSI, Packager, PowerShell Studio, PrimalScript
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Monday, December 7th, 2015 by June Blender
This is the second blog in a multi-part series about designing a Windows PowerShell script that will be packaged in an executable file. Passing Parameters to a Script in an Executable File explains how to use the special parsing features of PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript to make passing parameters easy for PowerShell users and authors. Parsing Parameters for a Script in an Executable File explains how to parse parameters manually for special uses. Displaying Help for a Script in an Executable File explains how to display help for a script in an executable file. Output from a Script in an…
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Tags: executable files, juneb, Packager, powershell, PowerShell Studio, Windows PowerShell
Posted in Beginners, Best practices, General, PowerShell Studio, PrimalScript, Windows PowerShell | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 by David Corrales
With release of the v4.2.83 build of PowerShell Studio 2015, we introduced new features that we are covering in detail over a series of articles. PowerShell Studio 2014 introduced the new Collection Project: https://www.sapien.com/blog/2014/07/29/powershell-studio-2014-collection-project/ The Collection Project simply groups various files without creating a single script as in a normal project and each script file runs individually. With this release, new options were added to the Collection Project in order to accommodate your deployment needs by controlling the behavior of the Packager, MSI, and Deployment as a whole or as individual files. OK Two new project properties were added: Deploy…
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Tags: Collections Project, Packager, powershell, PowerShell Studio 2015, what's new
Posted in PowerShell Studio, What's new, Windows PowerShell | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 19th, 2015 by Alex Riedel
Our 2015 versions have been out for a while and most of you already know about some of the new features. But we want to make sure you don’t miss anything, so here is a brief recap. PrimalScript 2015 now has a PowerShell dialog editor If you create graphical user interfaces (GUI) in PowerShell all the time, you probably already have SAPIEN PowerShell Studio. But if you just want to create a dialog here or there to prompt for some user input or display a particular piece of data as output, you do not need to create full-fledged event driven…
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Tags: .net framework, Dialog, Functions, Object Browser, Packager, powershell, PrimalScript, tools
Posted in PrimalScript, Software News, What's new, Windows PowerShell | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 30th, 2014 by Alex Riedel
PrimalScript 2014 can make a variety of script files into executable files. We call that packaging. This feature is mostly used by VBScript and PowerShell administrators to wrap their scripts into an executable file that can be shipped to end users and prevent prying eyes from seeing what makes the magic happen. For the aforementioned VBScript and PowerShell scripts this usually means a package that executes the code in memory, without the use of a temporary file. We did however receive quite a number of requests lately to also package Batch or CMD files. Here is where the “Throwback Thursday”…
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Tags: batch, cmd, Packager, PrimalScript 2014
Posted in PrimalScript, Software News, VBScript, What's new, Windows PowerShell | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 21st, 2014 by Alex Riedel
Welcome back. As we previously discussed, PrimalScript 2014 has a few new options for the script packager and has added features for creating MSI databases and deploying your script solutions. If you have missed the previous three installments, use the links below to catch up. From script to server – Deploying solutions with PrimalScript 2014 (Part 1) From script to server – Deploying solutions with PrimalScript 2014 (Part 2) From script to server – Deploying solutions with PrimalScript 2014 (Part 3) Today we are putting this all together and show you how to use this efficiently in your day-to-day operations.…
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Tags: automated build, Deploy, executable, MSI, Packager, powershell, PrimalScript 2014, PSBuild
Posted in PrimalScript, Software News, What's new | 3 Comments »
Monday, April 14th, 2014 by Alex Riedel
The last time we looked at the new installer option in PrimalScript 2014. You can find the article here: http://www.sapien.com/blog/2014/04/07/from-script-to-server-deploying-solutions-with-primalscript-2014-part-2 If you look at the deploy tab again, you will see a “Deployment” group. These functions will help you distribute your solutions to your target audience. First lets look at the settings. There are two items that are mandatory. You need to have at least one file that gets deployed. If you look at the combobox, there are three items in it: Depending on what else you have defined for your solution, the initial file to deploy can either…
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Tags: Deploy, executable, MSI, Packager, powershell, PrimalScript 2014
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Monday, April 7th, 2014 by Alex Riedel
Last time we looked at the new packager options in PrimalScript 2014. You can find the article here: http://www.sapien.com/blog/2014/03/25/from-script-to-server-deploying-solutions-with-primalscript-2014-part-1 If you look at the deploy tab again, you see an installer group that was not an option in any of the previous PrimalScript versions This new feature allows you to wrap your scripts, packaged executables, associated scripts, modules, configuration and binary files in a proper Microsoft Windows Installer database for easier deployment. If you have participated in our MSIWizard community preview you may already be familiar with a lot of this. Let’s examine the options we have. Most of the…
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Tags: Deploy, executable, MSI, Packager, powershell, PrimalScript 2014
Posted in PrimalScript, Software News, What's new, Windows PowerShell | Comments Off on From script to server – Deploying solutions with PrimalScript 2014 (Part 2)
Tuesday, March 25th, 2014 by Alex Riedel
If you take a look at the new 2014 version of PrimalScript you will discover a new tab on the ribbon interface: “Deploy” This tab combines three major stepping stones for deploying your scripting solutions: 1. The Script Packager that you all know from previous versions of PrimalScript. Of course this wouldn’t be much of a new version if there weren’t any upgrades. 2. The new MSI builder, which allows you to take your scripts, packages, modules and all the supplemental files you may need and wrap them into a professional grade installer package. 3. Last but not least PrimalScript’s…
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Tags: Deploy, executable, MSI, Packager, powershell, PrimalScript 2014
Posted in PrimalScript, Software News, What's new, Windows PowerShell | 6 Comments »
Monday, June 3rd, 2013 by Alex Riedel
The Script Packager has been a key feature of PrimalScript for many years now. Devised originally in the Windows 2000 era, it has some features that simply are no longer relevant or applicable in modern Windows versions. As many of you know, the packager has the ability to self-extract data files and COM objects when invoked. In that regard, packages work very much like a self-extracting ZIP files. Obviously that method did impose some size limitations, but it has worked well for many years. Starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, this self-extracting nature of script packages became more…
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Tags: assembly, com, module, MSI, Packager, powershell, PrimalScript, Wizard
Posted in Feature Peek, PrimalScript | 8 Comments »
