The Forms Designer is the cornerstone in PrimalForms and makes creating your forms easy and quick. Adding any of the Windows standard controls is as simple as dragging and dropping them onto the form. Move and resize them to fit your requirements and create or edit event blocks by simply double clicking on any control.

The integrated script editor delivers all the features you expect from a modern code editor, including syntax coloring, PrimalSense, bookmarks and code folding. In addition, the editor features split view editing, to enable viewing and editing of different sections in your scripts at the same time. The script editor is not limited to forms and their event handlers, but can open and edit any PowerShell you need to edit.

With the .NET Object Browser, you can view all .NET objects in your Global Assembly Cache (GAC) and explore their properties and methods. Its context menu lets you easily refer to the item’s online help on Microsoft’s MSDN website (requires internet access)

With the integrated PowerShell help, you can browse all of PowerShell’s Cmdlets and Aliases. Simply select a command and the help documentation is automatically displayed in a dockable and resizable pane. PrimalFrom’s integrated help also supports help for all of your PowerShell snapins, which are dynamically integrated when added to the Script.

While you can always run your form scripts directly from within PrimalForms 2009, you can also utilize it’s quick Script Preview mode. This special mode allows running your form without executing any of the event handling code, which makes it a great tool to demonstrate UI layout to future users and enables quick interactive testing of your UI design.

No scripting solution is complete without access to deployment options. PrimalForms 2009 features a script packager which can convert your custom PowerShell form solution into a stand-alone executable file. A multitude of options allow you to fine tune custom access privileges, elevation and platforms. Any Windows operating system, 32 and 64 bit, is able to run these executable files as long as Microsoft PowerShell is installed.