This is a question that comes up fairly often in our support forums, so I thought I would post a quick overview.
The scenario is that an admin wants to package his script as an executable to allow regular users…
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Have you been keeping an eye on the SAPIEN Information Center? If not, here are some articles you may have missed!
Working with SemanticVersion in PowerShell
by June Blender, November 3, 2016
As the versions of Windows PowerShell and PowerShell…
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One of my first tasks, after I was hired at SAPIEN, was to figure out why users couldn’t view WMI classes on remote computers and turn the solution into an easy-to-follow blog post. After completing that, I had to turn…
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Now that PowerShell is available on the Mac, we thought it would be useful to show how easy it is to setup a Mac terminal session that automatically opens into PowerShell. Figure 1 shows what we mean.
First you need…
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Although the names are similar and often confused, these properties are different. If you confuse them, the help for your PowerShell commands and modules won’t work.
The HelpUri property stores the URL (http or https) of online help for a…
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Tested on: PowerShell 2.0+, PowerShell Studio 2016
This step-by-step example shows you how to create a very simple multi-form PowerShell GUI app. The app consists of a parent form that gets data from a child form and displays it. When…
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Over the years, the articles in this blog have grown extensively. There’s a lot of valuable information in here, but it’s become hard to find because it’s mixed in with various tour announcements, special offers, conference recaps, and the like.…
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When I started using Git back in 2012, I wasn’t new to source control systems. I used a database-backed source control system back in the 80’s and, at Microsoft, I used Visual Source Safe (VSS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS).…
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There are so many features in PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript that I think I can’t live without, like the Format Script button, file groups, and conditional breakpoints.
But, there are few features I’d love to have that aren’t there. They’re…
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Sometimes, I say things so many times that I start to believe them, even when I’m wrong. Here’s a correction of one of the details that I’ve gotten wrong repeatedly.
“You can only use the Properties pane on one object…
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