If this is a complex script, you may spend an afternoon debugging, only to find out that restarting the ISE or console would have helped the issue. But that requires you to know that you need a new runspace. Yes, I know the ISE has a ‘File’ -> ‘New PowerShell Tab’ item, which creates a new runspace. You can produce the same effect in a console-the ISE and console reuse the same runspace. Your script running correctly here does not mean it will run correctly elsewhere. Any script you run in this same runspace is compromised by this. It is littered with variables set by any previous script you ran. If the script you loaded is another 3000 or more line script, and somewhere deep in there this variable is used, it is much harder to find. In this little example, it is very easy to see why and what you need to do. When you run this script, it does nothing-nothing at all. Would you remember every variable that was set? Did you restart the ISE? And that script ran three hours ago, before lunch, and you ran two others after that, which are entirely unrelated. Now imagine that, instead of typing that statement, you ran a 3000+ line script that sets a number of variables, including bExitLoop.
That can be a problem.Īfter you hit Enter, any trace that ever happened is gone from the screen. A variable to determine if you need to exit a loop may be called $bExitLoop in virtually all of your scripts.
SAPIEN POWERSHELL STUDIO EXECUTABLE TEST CODE
As a result, any code you write usually reuses the same variable names.įor a counter, you use $ctr for a flag, you might use $bFlag. People who write code are even more so because we have copy-and-paste. Now, we are ready to build another executable so we can use it on our next blog Part-2 “ PowerShell Integration to a SSIS solution“.We are all creatures of habit. Basically, this script doesn’t need to be a function in order to use the Param() keyword to accept two input arguments: $firstName, and $lastName. Good! As you can see this is a very simple script. Test the executable in both DOS and PowerShell command prompt: Testing PowerShell executable in both DOS & PowerShell Console Let’s open my PowerShell Console, change directory to where my executable is located, and run it. Make sure to select WIN32 or WIN64 Command line option
This exe file will be built in the same folder where your script are stored. We click in the “Build” button to cerate the EXE.
SAPIEN POWERSHELL STUDIO EXECUTABLE TEST WINDOWS
We are going to select to build the executable for a “WIN32 Command Line” because this script is consider a Console Application and there’s no windows form in it. Now, we need to compiled this script using “Script Packager” under the “Export” tab in PrimalForms 2011. BackgroundColor Black -ForegroundColor Yellow Write-Host "Hello Work!! I’m $firstName $lastName" ` # Created with: SAPIEN Technologies, Inc., PrimalForms 2011 v2.0.9 Let’s start with some very basic sample of how you create a PowerShell executable script that will accept parameters and display the results on the PowerShell Console prompt.įirst the Sample Script, my of “HelloWorld” executable -“HelloWorldExec.ps1″ But, not until recently, I didn’t need to pass parameter(s) my compiled version of my script(s). Yes!! You can create an executable file of your PowerShell script. You may ask, but how? Simple, if you a product such as SAPIEN’s PrimalForms (or, PrimalScript), you can create an executable out of your script. Recently, I’ve been creating some PowerShell script, and intergrating it into my SSIS solution.
Creating a PowerShell Executable with Parameter(s)