This article is Part 2 in our Progress Bar series. In this article, we cover handling a script’s task progress with the notion of completion by using a “Progress Bar” control in a GUI application to provide a visual presentation…
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This is the first in a series of articles covering the topic of Progress Bars.
Sometimes a script can take time to complete a task and we need a way to display this in our GUI application. We can add…
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On our PowerShell community forums, we have recently received questions asking if it is possible to store PowerShell variables in external files, and if so, how is it done. It is indeed possible to store variables in external files for…
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To make your lives (ok, and ours!) easier, we have updated our License Activation Reset Policy. The new 2018 products (and the last few 2017 releases) will no longer require you to wait six months before resetting an activation via…
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A while ago, Friedrich Weinmann, a frequent feature requester and current SAPIEN MVP, put in a request for a Public Wish List. Initially, we thought we didn’t really need that because we have a Wish List and Feature Requests forum.…
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PowerShell has multiple Cmdlets that display information, but the question that often arises is which one should be used? In this post we will take a look at the differences between some of the more common ways to display…
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Previously I showed you the new Windows Application engine (https://www.sapien.com/blog/2017/06/14/new-script-engines-for-windows-powershell/) and the Windows System Tray engine https://www.sapien.com/blog/2017/07/10/creating-a-system-tray-application-with-powershell/.
Today I will show you the last of the three new engines, the Windows Service engine.
Writing a Windows Service can be a…
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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…
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On Friday, February 17, 2017, I posted the following puzzle on Twitter and Facebook (and here!).
It shows a PowerShell function with a Write-Verbose command and asks “Why won’t this verbose string print?”
You might think of this as a…
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On Friday, February 3, we posted a Friday Puzzle that shows a PowerShell function and a PowerShell class method that contain the same command sequence, including a statement with the Return keyword.
The puzzle asks: What does the function return?…
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