Best practices

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.…

March 30, 2021 / by Alex Riedel / Basics, Beginners, Best practices, PowerShell, Scripting, Windows PowerShell / 6 Comments

Module or dot sourcing? Which one when?

In PowerShell you have two ways of including ‘other’ code in your script. Other code can be someone else’s code, your code from another project, or simply the way you organize your code into different files. Before we dive into…

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…

May 13, 2019 / by Brittney Ryn / Automation, Beginners, Best practices, General, PowerShell, Quick Guide, Scripting, Windows PowerShell / 1 Comment

Advanced PowerShell Functions: Begin to Process to End

The PowerShell pipeline can pass objects from one command to another, enabling output from a function to stream – or ‘pipe’ – as input into another command. In this article we will demonstrate how to leverage this functionality to seamlessly…

March 10, 2017 / by June Blender / Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Best practices, Puzzle, Test-Driven Development, Testing / No Comments

Friday Puzzle Solution: Write a Map Function for PowerShell

On Friday, February 24, 2017, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter and Facebook (and here!). We provide a Pester test script and a script with detailed help but no code, and you add the code to the script to…

March 9, 2017 / by Devin Leaman / Automation, Best practices, Howto, IT, PowerShell 5.0, PowerShell Studio, PrimalScript, Scripting, Windows PowerShell / No Comments

Enabling deep script block logging

As of the KB3000850 update and PowerShell 5.0, PowerShell has included script block logging so that admins would have more tools for the blue team side of pen testing. If you’re unfamiliar or have never heard of it before, I…

December 22, 2016 / by June Blender / Best practices, Pester, PowerShell, PowerShell HelpWriter, Puzzle / No Comments

Friday Puzzle: Phantom Help

On Friday, December 16, 2016, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter. It shows a function that has no comment-based help or XML help, but when you run Get-Help on the function, Get-Help displays both a description and notes for…

November 23, 2016 / by June Blender / Best practices, PowerShell Studio / 6 Comments

Why Breaking Changes?

In PowerShell Studio 5.3.130, we made some changes to projects that aren’t recognized by previous versions of PowerShell Studio. This blog post describes the changes, explains why we made them, and offers a workaround in case you really need it.…

May 11, 2016 / by June Blender / Best practices, PowerShell Studio, Windows PowerShell / 8 Comments

Use PSScriptAnalyzer in PowerShell Studio

Applies to: Windows PowerShell 3.0 and later PSScriptAnalyzer 1.1.0 and later PowerShell Studio 5.2.118 and later PowerShell Studio has long supported best practices in Windows PowerShell, including running and debugging without profiles, avoiding cmdlet and parameter aliases (right-click\Expand to cmdlet,…

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…

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Category: Best practices

Basics: Copying Controls and Events in the Designer

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

Advanced PowerShell Functions: Begin to Process to End

Friday Puzzle Solution: Write a Map Function for PowerShell

Enabling deep script block logging

Friday Puzzle: Phantom Help

Why Breaking Changes?

Use PSScriptAnalyzer in PowerShell Studio

Distributing files with your packaged scripts

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