This first article in our step-by-step guide for the SAPIEN MSI Builder walks you through the initial settings you need for every Windows Installer you will create.
There are reasonable defaults in place for a number of fields, and some…
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The latest versions of the Windows Application engines supplied with the Script Packager in PrimalScript 2023 (8.1.187) and SAPIEN PowerShell Studio 2023 (5.8.226) contain a little new feature you may find handy.
If your script uses the ‘Write-Progress’ cmdlet, the…
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In PrimalScript 8.1.182 and PowerShell Studio 5.8.222, we added an option to the current packager engines allowing you to adjust the colors of specific output categories.
You may have seen the properties below in a PowerShell console:
These are properties…
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So you downloaded PowerShell Studio and designed the latest and greatest PowerShell application. Much blood, sweat, and coffee went into endless hours of pushing controls pixel by pixel, sizing things correctly, testing and debugging. And finally, you are ready! Ready…
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The information in this article applies to the SAPIEN Script Packager in PrimalScript 8.1.181 and PowerShell Studio 5.8.222.
SAPIEN Script Packager has had the ability to create MSI files for some years now. The intention has always been to provide…
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ARM processors have been part of the Microsoft Windows computer infrastructure for some time. Windows 10 officially started supporting it back in 2017. I am intentionally leaving out Windows 8 on Windows RT; if you have encountered this, you likely…
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This article provides an overview of a new feature introduced in PrimalScript 8.1.179 and PowerShell Studio 5.8.220 that allows you to add modules to the MSI file that installs your PowerShell application.
Modules are a substantial part of the PowerShell…
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The information in this article applies to SAPIEN Script Packager in the 2023 versions of PowerShell Studio (5.8.214), PrimalScript (8.1.174), and later builds.
In a previous article, we introduced the new User Interface options in the 2023 SAPIEN Script Packager…
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The information in this article applies to SAPIEN Script Packager in the 2023 versions of PowerShell Studio (5.8.214), PrimalScript (8.1.174), and later builds.
Some time ago, we added an option in the Installer for the generated MSI files to have…
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The last installment in our series about the SAPIEN Script Packager introduces the Custom Build Command settings.
This process is pretty straightforward. Any specified Pre-build command is executed before packaging takes place. So if you need to copy dot-sourced files…
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