Malware, ransomware, and hackers from around the globe are all over the news lately. PowerShell has long been a known vector for installing malware of various types. However, singling out PowerShell is not quite fair. If you do not remember…
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Our original MSI builder had an option to create a shortcut to the packaged executable. One shortcut was enough for the intended purpose, but with the ever-growing complexity of PowerShell applications, something more was needed.
With the latest service builds…
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When you set up script signing in PrimalScript or PowerShell Studio, you see a field called “Time Stamp”. It has a large list of URLs for time stamp servers to choose from.
What does this do and why do you…
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No matter how carefully you lay out your plans and craft your code, you will always find situations where you need to hunt for a bug. It can be a simple logic flaw, an ill-placed copy and paste of code…
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This recent change was kicked off by one of our customers, who wanted to see ‘Write-verbose’ messages when debugging or testing, but not in production. We assumed that the same is probably true for ‘Write-Debug’ messages. It makes perfect sense…
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In April 2020, we released a new tool, the SAPIEN Script Explorer. You can find the details here: https://www.sapien.com/blog/2020/04/06/introducing-the-sapien-script-explorer/.
The basic premise was to prevent users from having to associate script extensions (.ps1, .vbs, .js, etc.) with the ‘open’ verb…
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We were pleased to join online and speak to the Coders Cafe Meetup attendees on Tuesday, August 18, 2020.
About 16 people joined to see the presentation on “Working with .NET Interactive Notebook.”
A big “thank you” to the meeting…
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PrimalScript 7.6.143 was released on August 5th, 2020, and it includes support for PowerShell 7.0.3. We have started to support what was known as PowerShell Core with 7.0.0 and added debugging and packaging functionality for this new PowerShell version some…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed our way of presenting to our tech community, but “Thanks” to video communication technologies, we can get together online and share our passion for technology.
We were glad to join online and speak to…
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PowerShell v2 was released in 2008 when Windows 7 was the OS to have. It has since been superseded by versions 3, 4, 5, and 5.1 as far as Windows PowerShell is concerned.
As everyone is now looking at PowerShell…
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