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…
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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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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 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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Back in the lost ages of pre-internet dawn, PrimalScript sported a File Manager panel which enabled users to quickly open, rename and copy files on their hard drive without having to switch to another application.
Over the years this particular…
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With the 2012 release of the ever popular PrimalPad, our portable PowerShell and VBScript editor, we switched to the now almost ubiquitous ribbon user interface. One thing that disappeared because of that was the custom user tools menu. Mostly because,…
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One of the many things on our users wish list was the ability to change variables while debugging. While we where looking to solve that, we also looked for a way to call functions while stopped at a breakpoint or…
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We have all heard that phrase. We have all faced that scenario. A script runs perfectly fine on your machine or any VM you have, but just refuses to do anything useful on that one server where it really matters.…
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We do get this question from users new to our software quite frequently. We realize that there is some overlap between the two products, they are both editors after all and both support PowerShell. I could go on and explain…
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