In the latest builds of PowerShell Studio (5.9.253) and PrimalScript (8.1.213), SAPIEN Script Packager added an option to include the PowerShell reference assemblies.
This option was added to address some errors when packaging scripts, particularly when using Add-Type. The error…
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In the dark, cold age of pre-internet dawn computer software usually came with the two pinnacles of boomer technology: A manual and possibly a help file.
”Online help” would most likely have been confused with some kind of laundry drying…
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With the release of PowerShell Studio 2025, we updated our Windows Form generated code to remove the BinaryFormatter class when loading image data for Images, Icons, and ImageLists.
Security Risks of BinaryFormatter
The BinaryFormatter class in .NET has been a…
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A new PowerShell book is available, and it’s worth your while. It is created as a “cookbook” so you don’t have to read it all at once but rather pick and choose whatever “recipe” you need on any given day.…
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The recent PowerShell Studio service builds include some changes to improve the handling of the WebView2 control. This article details the changes made and provides an overview of loading the control in PowerShell Studio’s designer.
Setup
To load the WebView2…
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The features discussed in this article are available with PrimalScript 8.1.200 PowerShell Studio 5.8.238.
When PowerShell 3.0 was released, one of its most lauded features was updateable help. You could run Update-Help, and PowerShell would update the locally stored help…
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In this article, our guest blogger, Brent Challis, demonstrates how to use an incremental building block approach to PowerShell script design, allowing flexibility while keeping sight of the desired result.
Splitting code between the functional blocks and the code you…
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The sixth part of our step-by-step series for the MSI builder explains custom actions.
Custom actions enable you to do additional setup, removal, or repair—which you may not be able to do from your application. Most installers will require admin…
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We are pleased to announce the addition of PowerShell 7 support with the PowerShell HelpWriter 2023 release (3.0.56).
You can now select the PowerShell Version at the bottom of the Select Module dialog:
The modules listed are from the $PSModulePath…
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In this article, our guest blogger—Brent Challis—provides a different approach to retrieving the correct Documents folder.
The Problem
One of the problems working with multiple computers is that the Documents folder path could be:
C:\Users\<user>\OneDrive\Documentsor C:\Users\<user>\Documents
There are many…
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