With the release of the latest service build (5.9.257), we have added support for XAML files in PowerShell Studio’s projects and have created a new project template named WPF Project. This is part of our ongoing process to add support…
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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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In the dark, cold age of pre-internet dawn computer software usually came with the two pinnacles of boomer technology: A manual and possibly a help file.
”Online help” would most likely have been confused with some kind of laundry drying…
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A new PowerShell book is available, and it’s worth your while. It is created as a “cookbook” so you don’t have to read it all at once but rather pick and choose whatever “recipe” you need on any given day.…
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The information in this article applies to the new PowerShell Version Selector features in PrimalScript 8.1.205, PowerShell Studio 5.8.244, and later builds.
The PowerShell Version Selector has been a part of PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript since February 2022. Its main…
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The features discussed in this article are available with PrimalScript 8.1.200 PowerShell Studio 5.8.238.
When PowerShell 3.0 was released, one of its most lauded features was updateable help. You could run Update-Help, and PowerShell would update the locally stored help…
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In this article, our guest blogger, Brent Challis, demonstrates how to use an incremental building block approach to PowerShell script design, allowing flexibility while keeping sight of the desired result.
Splitting code between the functional blocks and the code you…
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This part of the MSI Builder Step-by-Step series is a re-post of a previous article on adding PowerShell modules to your Installer. As all the information is recent and there have been no changes, you can skip this post if…
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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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The feature described in this article is also included in PowerShell Studio 5.8.230.
Some time ago, Microsoft introduced Windows Terminal, which has now replaced the default console on Windows 11 (since 22H2). Having a tabbed environment and the ability to…
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