February 2013
Intermediate to advanced
632 pages
20h 20m
English
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Debugging is a difficult topic in any kind of computer system, and PowerShell is no exception. PowerShell provides decent tools for debugging, but those tools don’t make debugging magically easier. The trick with debugging, it turns out, is having an expectation of how things are supposed to work so that you can spot the place where they stop doing so.
For example, let’s say your car won’t start. Do you have any idea why? Do you know what’s supposed to be happening when you turn the key? If not, then you can’t debug the problem. If you know that the battery needs to be charged, your foot ...