Archive for the ‘VBScript’ Category
The ILOVEYOU virus in the year 2000 gave Windows Script Host a bad rep because it simply executed every script you double clicked on. Now,…   More »
Moving to 64 bit: Running VBScript files in 64 bit mode from PrimalScript 2009
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 by Alex Riedel
PrimalScript 2009 usually uses CScript.exe to run VBScript files and captures its output and directs it to the IDE's output windows. Since PrimalScript 2009 is…   More »
Back from Tech-Ed: Is your Training for PowerShell V2?
Friday, July 23rd, 2010 by Ferdinand Rios
SAPIEN's PowerShell training does indeed cover PowerShell V2. We offer PowerShell V2 training in the following forms: Self Paced Training - Our PowerShell Class-on-Disk series…   More »
Back from TechEd: What’s wrong with using Notepad?
Monday, July 19th, 2010 by Alex Riedel
Some folks wandered by our booth and after realizing that some of our products involve editing scripts of various languages reacted with statements like: "I…   More »
RSEE now supports PowerShell
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 by Alex Riedel
With this month's service release for PrimalScript 2009 (build 631) we included an updated version of the RSEE (Remote Script Execution Engine) service. The new…   More »
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 »
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 »