Posts Tagged ‘com’
I needed a demonstration for one of my last online PowerShell classes on using COM objects in PowerShell. I took an old VBScript that used Microsoft Word to get document statistics such as word and page count and transformed it into PowerShell. I quickly realized I could flesh out the demo into a larger function that I can actually use. Given that I generate a lot of Word docs, being able to get some document statistics is helpful. So I created a function called Get-DocStatistic.   More »
PowerShell and COM objects.
Thursday, August 7th, 2008 by Alex Riedel
While developing a COM object for scripting use I wanted to provide a VBScript sample as well as a PowerShell sample. While creating the PowerShell…   More »
Searching Word
Monday, July 28th, 2008 by Jeffery Hicks
One of the last tasks I needed to accomplish to get Managing Active Directory with Windows PowerShell: TFM ready for publication was to assemble all the script samples. They'll be available for download from SAPIENPress when the book is published. I knew that most of the scripts were in my primary scripts directory, but probably not all. I usually copied scripts from my test environment to my scripts directory but I knew some were bound to be missing. I didn't want to manually open 16 chapters, search for script names, check if I had the script and then move it to a new folder. I don't have time for that. But I do have time to figure out how to do it in PowerShell.   More »
Better Sense for PowerShell
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 by Don Jones
PrimalScript 2007 build 566 (free to current PrimalScript 2007 owners - log into my.sapien.com to download) includes significant updates to the product's "PrimalSense" code-hinting and…   More »
Free FTP Component Updated
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 by SAPIEN Technologies
Hop over to http://primalscript.com/free_tools/index.asp to download the new version of our free FTP COM component, which includes commands for changing directories and other functionality. This component…   More »







