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April 5, 2021 / by Alex Riedel / Ask the Experts, General, PowerShell, PowerShell Studio, PrimalPad, PrimalScript, Reference, SAPIEN Script Explorer, Scripting, VBScript, VersionRecall, Windows PowerShell / No Comments

Why do I need a time stamp when signing a script?

When you set up script signing in PrimalScript or PowerShell Studio, you see a field called “Time Stamp”. It has a large list of URLs for time stamp servers to choose from. What does this do and why do you…

March 30, 2021 / by Alex Riedel / Basics, Beginners, Best practices, PowerShell, Scripting, Windows PowerShell / No Comments

Module or dot sourcing? Which one when?

In PowerShell you have two ways of including ‘other’ code in your script. Other code can be someone else’s code, your code from another project, or simply the way you organize your code into different files. Before we dive into…

March 2, 2021 / by Alex Riedel / Ask the Experts, Basics, Beginners, Best practices, PowerShell, PowerShell Studio, PrimalScript, Scripting / No Comments

Basics: Debugging 101. Single step through your code and inspect variables

No matter how carefully you lay out your plans and craft your code, you will always find situations where you need to hunt for a bug. It can be a simple logic flaw, an ill-placed copy and paste of code…

February 23, 2021 / by Alex Riedel / PowerShell 7, PrimalScript, Service Build, Software News, Windows PowerShell / No Comments

SAPIENHost gets new methods to distinguish debugging, testing and packaging

This recent change was kicked off by one of our customers, who wanted to see ‘Write-verbose’ messages when debugging or testing, but not in production. We assumed that the same is probably true for ‘Write-Debug’ messages. It makes perfect sense…

January 20, 2021 / by Stephanie Dennis / General, Pester, PowerShell, Reference, Test-Driven Development, Testing, Windows PowerShell / No Comments

Migrating from Pester 4 to Pester 5

SAPIEN’s PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript products both include integrated Pester testing. In this article, we will cover some changes in the Pester 4 to Pester 5 upgrade. The most significant change in the release of Pester 5 is that it…

November 23, 2020 / by Alex Riedel / PowerShell 7, PowerShell Studio, PrimalScript, SAPIEN Script Explorer, Software News, Windows PowerShell / No Comments

Script Explorer adds security features

In April 2020, we released a new tool, the SAPIEN Script Explorer. You can find the details here: https://www.sapien.com/blog/2020/04/06/introducing-the-sapien-script-explorer/. The basic premise was to prevent users from having to associate script extensions (.ps1, .vbs, .js, etc.) with the ‘open’ verb…

November 5, 2020 / by Allison Higbee / 20,000 feet, General / No Comments

A simple fix for problems with Windows Forms WebBrowser

Do you run into this issue? Our Guest Blogger, Brent Challis has the fix for you! I have been trying to use the Windows.Forms.WebBrowser control with Google maps to display the location where a photo was taken based on it’s Exif…

September 8, 2020 / by Max Trinidad / GUIProgramming, PowerShell, PowerShell 5.0, PowerShell 7, PowerShell Studio, Scripting, Windows PowerShell / 1 Comment

PowerShell Studio: Working with the DataGridView Control

We often receive questions in our support forum about how to use the DataGridView Control in PowerShell Studio forms. Many of the inquiries are about editing, highlighting, working with control events, and the dataset (DataTable Class) properties. This article will answer…

August 24, 2020 / by Max Trinidad / Bash, Events, GitHub, PowerShell, PowerShell 7, PrimalScript, Scripting, Windows PowerShell, Windows Subsystem for Linux / No Comments

SAPIEN Technologies at the Coders Cafe User Group Online Meetup on August 18, 2020

We were pleased to join online and speak to the Coders Cafe Meetup attendees on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. About 16 people joined to see the presentation on “Working with .NET Interactive Notebook.” A big “thank you” to the meeting…

August 12, 2020 / by Alex Riedel / PowerShell 7, PowerShell Core, PowerShell Studio, PrimalScript / 2 Comments

Packaging scripts for PowerShell 7 and .NET Core

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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Why do I need a time stamp when signing a script?

Basics: Debugging 101. Single step through your code and inspect variables

SAPIENHost gets new methods to distinguish debugging, testing and packaging

Migrating from Pester 4 to Pester 5

Script Explorer adds security features

A simple fix for problems with Windows Forms WebBrowser

PowerShell Studio: Working with the DataGridView Control

SAPIEN Technologies at the Coders Cafe User Group Online Meetup on August 18, 2020

Packaging scripts for PowerShell 7 and .NET Core

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