New packaging options for PrimalScript 2009
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 by Alex Riedel
As 64 bit Windows versions become more common, you need to deploy scripts automating 64 bit software as well as maintaining 32 bit versions of… More »
Posts Tagged ‘VBScript’
How safe are my scripts in PrimalScript/PrimalForms packages?
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 by Alex Riedel
This is a question that has come up a lot lately. Our Script Packager used in PrimalScript 2009 and PrimalForms 2009 stores the scripts and… More »
Writing VBScript that really runs in PowerShell
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 by Alex Angelopoulos
It's quite possible to run traditional WSH script from the PowerShell console, and people have even directly hosted VBScript in PowerShell since 2004 using the Microsoft Script Control. However, you can go farther than just loading VBScript into an object in a PowerShell session and calling its methods. You can use VBScript – or any other Active Scripting language, for that matter – as a scripting language for PowerShell. More »
Registry access from 32 to 64 bit and back
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 by Alex Riedel
Just recently, I received an email asking how you can access the 64 bit registry from a 32 bit script, or vice versa. The task… More »
Attention User Groups
Thursday, August 13th, 2009 by Margaret Pratt
We are sending our CEO and CTO on tour! SAPIEN Technologies will be visiting a number of user groups within the US to meet and… More »
VBScript Includes
Thursday, May 28th, 2009 by Jeffery Hicks
I've been using VBScript for a very long time. One drawback it has always had as a scripting language is an INCLUDE statement. In other languages you can use something like INCLUDE scriptfile at the beginning of the script. This would load any functions and variables in the specified script file into your current script. In PowerShell we can accomplish this by dot sourcing scripts. I never knew of a way to do the same thing with VBScript until now. More »
Registering PrimalPad as your default editor
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 by Ferdinand Rios
Associating a file type with a specific application has always been fairly easy to do under the various incarnations of Windows. Basically, you can right-click… More »
VBScript Complex Regex Replace
Friday, April 24th, 2009 by Jeffery Hicks
A few days ago I posted a blog entry on simple regular expression replacements in VBScript. Let me show you a more complex example. It helps to have a purpose, even for demonstration so my need is to convert an html table to CSV output using regular expressions. More »