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April 12, 2021 / by Brittney Ryn / Ask the Experts, Basics, Beginners, Best practices, Howto, PowerShell Studio, Quick Guide / No Comments

Basics: Copying Controls and Events in the Designer

The Window Forms designer in PowerShell Studio lets you cut (Ctrl+X), copy (Ctrl+C), and paste (Ctrl+V) controls within the current form as well as between other forms. When copying a control, it will retain the properties set on the control.…

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 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…

April 22, 2016 / by June Blender / Ask the Experts, Scripting, Tip / 26 Comments

Calling a method without parentheses

Late breaking news from PowerShell Conference Europe 2016!! During PowerShell MVP Chrissy LeMaire’s (@cl) knockout session at PowerShell Conference Europe 2016, “My Journey to 200,000 Rows a Second” (don’t miss the recording; I’ll tweet as soon as it’s available), PowerShell…

April 20, 2016 / by June Blender / Ask the Experts, Howto, PowerShell Studio, Scripting, Tip, Windows PowerShell / 11 Comments

Setting Conditional Breakpoints

Applies to PowerShell Studio 2016, PrimalScript 2016, and later. I write lots of scripts — for production, for research, for testing, and for demonstrations. And, inevitably, I hit a bug. I’m actually relieved when I do, because no code is…

March 22, 2016 / by Alex Riedel / Ask the Experts, Best practices / 3 Comments

Distributing files with your packaged scripts

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…

November 16, 2015 / by Devin Leaman / Ask the Experts, General, Tip, VBScript, VBScript Scripts, Windows PowerShell / 1 Comment

Engine Type Prerequisites

When building executables in PrimalScript or PowerShell Studio there are various engine types to choose from, each of them with a prerequisite that must be installed on the machine that will be running your program. For example, if you build…

November 9, 2015 / by Alex Riedel / Ask the Experts, General, Howto / 3 Comments

How to submit a support request

With social media and every company having a presence in a number of places it sometimes feels like it won’t matter where you ask your questions. So it is only normal that we get phone calls, tweets, blog comments, smoke…

September 25, 2013 / by Robert Morey / 20,000 feet, Ask the Experts, Events, PrimalSQL / No Comments

PowerShell in the UK? You Bet! And SAPIEN is Supporting the Community!

SQLSaturdays worldwide are a great vehicle for database administrators and others to get together, learn from each other, and network. Obviously, they center around SQL but we at SAPIEN are quite pleased to see PowerShell becoming part of these…

May 16, 2013 / by Alex Riedel / Ask the Experts, Howto, PowerShell Studio, PrimalScript, Software News, VBScript, Windows PowerShell / 10 Comments

But it works on my machine…

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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Basics: Copying Controls and Events in the Designer

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

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

Calling a method without parentheses

Setting Conditional Breakpoints

Distributing files with your packaged scripts

Engine Type Prerequisites

How to submit a support request

PowerShell in the UK? You Bet! And SAPIEN is Supporting the Community!

But it works on my machine…

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