PowerShell v2 was released in 2008 when Windows 7 was the OS to have. It has since been superseded by versions 3, 4, 5, and 5.1 as far as Windows PowerShell is concerned.
As everyone is now looking at PowerShell…
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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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Every now and then we get a forum post or an email from a customer bemoaning that PowerShell Studio associates the ‘open’ verb for Windows PowerShell script (.ps1) with itself.
Since the “open” verb is by default not associated with…
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It has been brought to our attention that the default time stamping url specified in our products is not working. While it is unclear as to why this is the case, for the time being, we recommend our customers use…
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Once again, SAPIEN Technologies is a proud sponsor of the South Florida Software Developers Conference 2020. Previously known as the South Florida Code Camp, the conference is in its 16th year.
This event provides a free one-day geek fest with…
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As you advance in the Code-Run-Debug cycle of a new script towards completion it becomes more of an Correct-Test-Debug cycle. The emphasis clearly shifts from writing new code to testing and correcting existing code.
To make that easier we introduced…
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This article presents the instructional video for our recent post Creating an MSI Installer for a packaged script executable.
Build Installer
The video briefly covers the four script engine options:
Changes to the script Two additional scripts used in Custom…
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With the release of the 2020 versions of our products, we will no longer produce 32-bit versions of them.
While we are aware that some of you still need to support 32-bit OS installations, development machines are all 64-bit now,…
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This blog post will get you started working with Git repositories in either of our SAPIEN editors—PowerShell Studio or PrimalScript.
In the following scenario, I will use an existing Git repository stored in Azure DevOps to demonstrate the process of…
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In a previous blog post we covered some of the SAPIEN Packager script engines to create an executable. Next step is to create the application installer so we can deploy the packaged solution.
We are going to take this further.…
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