PowerShell Studio: I see a gray form and I want it painted black!
Have you stared at your GUI and thought to yourself, I want it painted black? I have good news! No colors anymore! Now you can paint it black (and white), with new themes for your PowerShell GUIs....
View ArticleSAPIEN at SoCal PowerShell User Group
I had the wonderful opportunity to speak to the SoCal PowerShell user group about our SAPIEN DevOps Suite and to demo the new features of PowerShell Studio. The user group started with a round table...
View ArticleSAPIEN Technologies presented at SQL Saturday South Florida
Year after year this event keeps providing relevant content on technologies that involve SQL Server and anything that handles big data. The event was a success with approximately 1000 registered...
View ArticleSAPIEN Technologies and the PowerShell Chattanooga User Group
I would like to extend a big Thank You to James Petty and the PowerShell Chattanooga User Group for having me speak online about “PowerShell – Fundamental on how to Persist Data in a SQL Server...
View ArticleFour ways to package a non-GUI PowerShell script as an executable file
In this article I will show four Script Packager options available for converting a non-GUI PowerShell script to a packaged executable that can be run from a console shell. The “Packager” option is...
View ArticleNew Video – Four ways to package a non-GUI PowerShell script as an executable...
This article presents the instructional video for our recent post: Four ways to package a non-GUI PowerShell script as an executable file. The video briefly covers the four script engine options:...
View ArticleSAPIEN – Creating an MSI Installer for a packaged script executable
In recent blog post we covered some of the SAPIEN Packager script engines to create an executable. Next step is to create the application installer so we can deploy the packaged solution. We are going...
View ArticleSAPIEN Editors – Working with Git Repositories
This blog post will get you started working with Git repositories in either of our SAPIEN editors—PowerShell Studio or PrimalScript. In the following scenario, I will use an existing Git repository...
View ArticleCreate a script executable solution to map a shared folder
In a previous article we demonstrated a number of script packager solutions. In this post we show other ways to provide information to a script executable. The sample script is used to map a network...
View ArticleNew Video – Creating an MSI Installer for a packaged script executable
This article presents the instructional video for our recent post Creating an MSI Installer for a packaged script executable. Build Installer The video briefly covers the four script engine options:...
View ArticleSAPIEN Technologies at the South Florida Software Developers Conference 2020
Once again, SAPIEN Technologies is a proud sponsor of the South Florida Software Developers Conference 2020. Previously known as the South Florida Code Camp, the conference is in its 16th year. This...
View ArticleIntroducing the SAPIEN Script Explorer
Every now and then we get a forum post or an email from a customer bemoaning that PowerShell Studio associates the ‘open’ verb for Windows PowerShell script (.ps1) with itself. Since the “open” verb is...
View ArticlePrimalScript 2020 adds PowerShell 7 support
PrimalScript 2020 (7.7.139) adds PowerShell 7 support. While we have had the ability to run scripts in a PowerShell 6 or 7 console for some time, support for new language elements, packaging, etc. was...
View ArticleFree Training Videos – Learn Windows PowerShell
Do you want to start your journey with PowerShell scripting? Or perhaps you want to refresh your PowerShell skills or find a specific topic? The videos available on our SAPIEN Technologies YouTube...
View ArticleSAPIEN Technologies at the Coders Cafe User Group Online Meetup on August 18,...
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...
View ArticleAnnouncing our Interactive Online Product Overview Series
We are pleased to announce an upcoming series of short 30 to 45 minute online sessions demonstrating our software. Each overview session will include the opportunity to ask questions and provide...
View ArticlePowerShell Studio: Working with the DataGridView Control
We often receive questions in our support forum about how to use the DataGridView Control in PowerShell Studio forms. Many of the inquiries are about editing, highlighting, working with control events,...
View ArticleScript Explorer adds security features
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...
View ArticleMigrating from Pester 4 to Pester 5
SAPIEN’s PowerShell Studio and PrimalScript products both include integrated Pester testing. In this article, we will cover some changes in the Pester 4 to Pester 5 upgrade. The most significant change...
View ArticleSAPIENHost gets new methods to distinguish debugging, testing and packaging
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...
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