Introduction
You can think of debugging as the art and science of removing bugs from your PowerShell scripts. A script may not do what you or your users want, both during the development of a script and after you deploy the script into production. Troubleshooting is a process you go through to determine why your script is not doing what you want, and then it helps you resolve your issues.
There are three broad classes of problems that you encounter:
- Syntax errors
- Logic errors
- Runtime errors
Syntax errors are very common – especially if your typing is less than perfect. It is so easy to type Get-ChildTiem as opposed to Get-ChildItem. The good news is that your script won't run successfully until you resolve your syntax errors. There are several ways to avoid syntax errors and to simplify the task of finding and removing them. One simple way is to use a good code editor, such as VS Code. Just like Microsoft Word, VS Code highlights potential syntax errors to help you identify...
