PowerShell: Automating Administrative Tasks

Script debugging

Debugging in PowerShell is similar to that in other programming languages. Script debugging is available in the console host as well as in the PowerShell ISE; ISE has both GUI and cmdlet-based debugging, whereas console has only cmdlets to debug your scripts.

The debugging feature in the PowerShell ISE is available under the Debug tab, which is self-explanatory. Let's take a look at the breakpoints and debug cmdlets:

(Get-Command -Name *Debug*).Where({$_.Source -ne 'Azure' -and $_.CommandType -eq 'cmdlet'})
Get-Command -Name *BreakPoint

Note that in the first snippet, I used the where method to ignore Azure and to get only the core cmdlets; the output is illustrated in the following image:

Managing breakpoints

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