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Recently, on our forums, a user asked why certain controls didn’t function correctly or threw an error when he unchecked the STA option in PowerShell Studio.
STA (Single Threaded Apartment) and MTA (Multi-Threaded Apartment) determine how a process…
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The new version of PowerShell Studio is upon us. All major releases are included as a free upgrade for those with an active subscription.
PowerShell Studio 2015
We worked hard on overhauling the parser and other internal systems so…
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I often manage data in CSV files, typically data that originates in an Excel spreadsheet. The Import-Csv cmdlet, which creates custom objects from the contents of a CSV file, makes CSV data an optimal choice in Windows PowerShell.…
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In a previous post, I talked about displaying output in a GUI application. But I really covered only the primary output of cmdlets. In this post, we’ll discuss some very basic strategies for detecting and displaying terminating and…
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After many years of writing scripts for the Windows PowerShell console, I’m now learning the next level of automation — writing GUI applications that run Windows PowerShell commands. PowerShell Studio forms provide a gentle and well-guided introduction to GUI applications,…
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When you open a new script file (.ps1) in PowerShell Studio 2014, you don’t get a blank page, at least by default. Instead, the page begins with a comment block, like this one:
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.NOTES
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Created with: SAPIEN Technologies,…
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PowerShell Studio is full of features and options. As a new user, I’m trying to learn as many as I can. There are four options in the Run menu, so, of course, I tried them all. But the result was…
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Windows PowerShell aliases are very handy. They typically have fewer characters than the commands and parameters that they represent, so they’re quicker to type and great for tweeting. However, it has long been an established best practice that aliases should…
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Once in a while our support team gets a request to recover a script from a packaged executable because the original was lost. In fact this just happened recently when a user contacted us to recover his lost form project…
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Today, I was experimenting with hash tables that had keys with multiple values. (More about that later!) But, in the course of my experimentation, I tried one technique and then another and then another. I didn’t want to delete any…
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