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April 7, 2022 / by Brittney Ryn / Ask the Experts, Basics, Beginners, Howto, PowerShell Module, PowerShell Studio, Quick Guide / No Comments

PowerShell Studio Projects: Module Project

PowerShell modules are an important part of PowerShell scripting as they provide a means to reuse and share code. The next part in our PowerShell Studio Project series is about the basics of working with module projects in PowerShell Studio.…

February 2, 2022 / by Alex Riedel / Ask the Experts, Basics, Beginners, Best practices / No Comments

Debugging 102: My script only crashes when I run it, never in the debugger

Crash bugs are generally spectacular; your application just—poof—vanishes! Or it shows error messages from the OS in foreign languages or with some indecipherable codes. Or maybe it generates 17 entries in the Windows application log. In the worst cases, it…

December 9, 2021 / by Alex Riedel / Ask the Experts, Beginners, General, Howto, PowerShell, PowerShell Studio, PrimalScript, SAPIEN Script Explorer, Tip / No Comments

What is a blocked file and how do I unblock it?

When you download or copy a file from the internet or any other untrusted source, Windows will set an extended attribute to mark the file as “blocked”. This is an important mechanism that stops the execution of potentially malicious code.…

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

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…

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PowerShell Studio Projects: Module Project

Debugging 102: My script only crashes when I run it, never in the debugger

What is a blocked file and how do I unblock it?

Basics: Copying Controls and Events in the Designer

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

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

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