Getting PrimalSense for a COM object that you didn’t have installed on your development machine is fairly simple: Copy the TLB file (type library) to you machine, associate it to a progid and you are all set.
With PowerShell Cmdlets…
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Many organizations use MySQL as the back end database to their web sites and other infrastructure operations. While MySQL offers its own set of GUI too for database management, using a generic database tool like PrimalSQL has several advantages, especially…
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Recently I was contacted by one of our PrimalForms users. He commented that the behavior of a script deviated from what he was expecting. He provided me with the following script block for the Button Click Event so that I…
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PrimalForms 2009 features integrated help to assist users with their form scripting. This blog covers some of its features.
Help Documentation:
(Fig 1: Click on the Help button or press F1 key to access the help documentation.)
PrimalForms allows users…
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Ever run into a situation where you have 2 folders with identical file names in them but possibly different content in the files? You really don’t want to have to open each and every file to compare them and then…
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Download Invoke-ActiveScript wrapper and demos
It’s quite possible to run traditional WSH script from the PowerShell console, and people have even directly hosted VBScript in PowerShell since 2004 using the Microsoft Script Control. However, you can go farther than just…
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Many PowerShell users utilize code as shown below to determine where the running script resides:
function get-scriptdirectory{ $invocation=(get-variable MyInvocation -Scope 1).Value Split-Path $invocation.myinvocation.path}
Unfortunately, if the script runs inside a custom host, such as PrimalScript’s internal host, for a good…
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Just recently, I received an email asking how you can access the 64 bit registry from a 32 bit script, or vice versa. The task the individual was facing was to come up with a way to verify installed applications…
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Lately I seem to be answering a number of PowerShell XML related questions. When that happens I figure its time for an example. I have a script that I think originally was posted in a forum. I apologize that I…
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SAPIEN is begun offering free product and technology Quick Guides. These are short (2-5 pages) guides on how to do a specific task. This month I just published a quick guide on getting started with PrimalForms Community Edition. The guide…
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