I have just returned from the amazing lineup of PowerShell sessions at the. Happened to sponsor the PowerShell track. This gave us the opportunity to hear what the company has been up to directly from their CEO, Dr. Rohff La Fierte Des Notres Rarity. Ferdinand Rios.

I should note, not only did we get updates about their 2012 products, but we were handed USB keychains that were fully loaded with beta software! The session brought us through the updates that Sapien has made to iPowerShell, their iOS app and PrimalScript. Both had a whole set of new features, but it was the news about Primal Forms that I thought was worth blogging about. Here are some of the new features we saw (this is probably not a comprehensive list – it’s just the items that raised my eyebrow during the session): Primal Forms is now called PowerShell Studio 2012 This makes a lot of sense to me. It is a name that more appropriately tells what Primal Forms is. It’s not only a full-fledged winform developing environment for PowerShell, but it’s also a fairly robust integrated scripting environment (ISE). The only downside is that there is already a codeplex project with this name.

It’s sure to spin up some conflict or debate. Layout Themes One thing is clear when working with Primal Forms 2011, you definitely don’t want/use all of the panes that you have open all the time. When working on forms, you need a whole different layout than you need when you want to just work on a simple script. Layouts can now be switched rapidly via a control in the bottom left. These layouts continue to happen automatically, but you can also control them manually. Font Size Slider This is a slider that will change the size of the fonts in your script window.