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

Calling a method without parentheses

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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.…

April 18, 2013 / by Alex Riedel / Ask the Experts, PrimalScript, Software News / 2 Comments

How can I make PrimalScript execute <fill in script language here>?

One question keeps popping up in our support forums and inboxes: How can I make PrimalScript execute my AutoIt, HTML, PigLatin <fill in any other script language here> script? This is fairly simple as long as you know what the…

April 10, 2013 / by Alex Riedel / Ask the Experts, PowerShell Studio, PrimalScript, Software News, VBScript, Windows PowerShell / 7 Comments

PrimalScript or PowerShell Studio?

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…

March 12, 2013 / by Alex Riedel / Ask the Experts, Community Tools, Howto, PrimalForms, VBScript, Windows PowerShell / 19 Comments

Jazz up your VBScripts with PowerShell and Windows Forms

Sure, you are supposed to write all new scripts in PowerShell. Some say you can replace any VBScript with a single line in PowerShell. But the truth is, many of you still have to maintain, develop and debug scripts written…

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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…

How can I make PrimalScript execute <fill in script language here>?

PrimalScript or PowerShell Studio?

Jazz up your VBScripts with PowerShell and Windows Forms

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