PowerShell Conference Asia (#PSConfAsia) held its inaugural sessions on September 18th and 19th, 2015 at Microsoft headquarters in Singapore. SAPIEN was the platinum sponsor of this event. A great set of sessions was kicked off with a State of the…
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If you search the SAPIEN blog, you’ll realize that this is the not our first blog about scope in PowerShell GUIs. In March 2013, SAPIEN CTO Alex Riedel wrote First Rule of PowerShell Scoping Rules, a title that implies the…
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I’m not a professional tester, but I am an expert at making mistakes. I take risks. I try everything. I gravitate to “corner cases” and odd circumstances. That makes me a great amateur tester and, due to a lifetime of experience with breaking…
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If you create PowerShell GUI apps in PowerShell Studio, you become very familiar with the events of the Windows Forms types, like the Load event of forms, the Click event of buttons, and the TextChanged event of textboxes.
PowerShell Studio…
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As a beginner developer of PowerShell GUIs, I’m always looking for easy ways to make my simple applications more sophisticated and usable. One of the basic usability features in most applications is typing <Enter> in a textbox to invoke a…
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I’ve been using Windows PowerShell since the very first version of Monad in 2005, but PowerShell-based applications with a graphic user interface (GUI) are a whole new world. Instead of thinking of cmdlets and parameters or properties and…
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During #PSBlogWeek, I shared with my co-authors a little GUI-based blogging tool that gets links to the online version of PowerShell help topics, including About topics. I didn’t think much of it, because it was my first GUI app, but…
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Well-designed user interfaces make it as easy as possible for the user to enter the right input in the right format. One of the most effective ways to help a user is to provide suggested input or automatically complete the…
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I often manage data in CSV files, typically data that originates in an Excel spreadsheet. The Import-Csv cmdlet, which creates custom objects from the contents of a CSV file, makes CSV data an optimal choice in Windows PowerShell.…
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After many years of writing scripts for the Windows PowerShell console, I’m now learning the next level of automation — writing GUI applications that run Windows PowerShell commands. PowerShell Studio forms provide a gentle and well-guided introduction to GUI applications,…
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