One of the most important things for any type of development is quick and efficient access to help information. No matter whether you are a seasoned developer or just started to write scripts longer than five lines, at some point…
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Making downloads available and easy to find is not always as simple as it may seem. Over time, web sites grow, locations for downloads get fragmented, sometimes you will find different versions in different areas.
Right now, you download our…
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We have been asked this question several times.
Does PrimalForms use WPF?
For those of you who are not familiar with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), it is Microsoft’s new graphical interface that uses DirectX and your graphics card to render…
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A recent change in PrimalScript’s packager converts all files packaged and executed to Unicode files.
If your script is a standard ANSI file it will be converted to Unicode before being packaged. Under normal circumstances you should never see any…
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PrimalScript had a visual file comparison feature since 4.0. With the release of PrimalScript 2009 Studio we also added PrimalMerge, a tool to compare and merge not only files but also folders.
While evaluating the feature line-up for our 2011…
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Since the announcement of PrimalForms 2011 we have received quite a number of inquiries about the next generation of PrimalScript. So without further delay, yes, there will also be a 2011 version of PrimalScript. We have analyzed all the…
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Last time we looked at running VBScript files in 64 bit from within PrimalScript 2009. As you may recall, the only thing required was to provide a path to the 64 bit CScript.exe or WScript.exe and substituting “sysnative” for “system32”.…
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This month, we are looking at PrimalForms 2011 and how to add event handlers to form controls. After evaluating PrimalForms 2009 and user feedback, we decided to improve the process of adding event handlers in PrimalForms 2011. In PrimalForms 2009,…
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SQL Saturday #40 came and went and I must say I had a great time.
Friday evening I attended the Speaker Dinner where I had the opportunity to meet with Max Trinidad, one of our SAPIEN MVPs, who helped organize…
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PrimalScript 2009 usually uses CScript.exe to run VBScript files and captures its output and directs it to the IDE’s output windows.
Since PrimalScript 2009 is a 32 bit application the host used is also of the 32 bit variety, residing…
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