Tag: error-handling

All the articles with the tag "error-handling".

• Execution of external commands (native applications) in PowerShell done right - Part 3

  4 Apr, 2015

  Fixing Invoke-NativeApplication to handle Windows exit codes beyond 0-255 using an IgnoreExitCode switch.

• Execution of external commands (native applications) in PowerShell done right - Part 2

  30 Mar, 2015

  Improved Invoke-NativeApplication with an IsError property on each output line and a prompt function edge-case fix.

• Execution of external commands in PowerShell done right

  10 Jan, 2015

  A PowerShell exec helper that correctly captures stdout and stderr from native commands and checks exit codes.

• Write-Error vs error tracing

  26 Dec, 2014

  PowerShell Write-Error always reports line 1 instead of the actual error location, with no clean workaround found.

• PowerShell $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop" vs error tracing

  25 Dec, 2014

  Why ErrorActionPreference Stop hides the true error line number and how trap { throw $Error[0] } fixes it.

• PowerShell 3 bug with stack trace

  6 Dec, 2012

  PowerShell 3 shows incorrect line numbers in stack traces when CmdletBinding and ErrorActionPreference are combined; trap workaround included.