Crash bugs are generally spectacular; your application just—poof—vanishes! Or it shows error messages from the OS in foreign languages or with some indecipherable codes. Or maybe it generates 17 entries in the Windows application log. In the worst cases, it…
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No matter how carefully you lay out your plans and craft your code, you will always find situations where you need to hunt for a bug. It can be a simple logic flaw, an ill-placed copy and paste of code…
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As you advance in the Code-Run-Debug cycle of a new script towards completion it becomes more of an Correct-Test-Debug cycle. The emphasis clearly shifts from writing new code to testing and correcting existing code.
To make that easier we introduced…
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PrimalScript 2104’s PowerShell Debugger has received a minor update with build 7.0.44.
The variables window now shows the actual .NET type of the underlying variable in a separate column.
In addition to that you can also see array data. If…
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One of the many things on our users wish list was the ability to change variables while debugging. While we where looking to solve that, we also looked for a way to call functions while stopped at a breakpoint or…
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We have all heard that phrase. We have all faced that scenario. A script runs perfectly fine on your machine or any VM you have, but just refuses to do anything useful on that one server where it really matters.…
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The latest service build of PrimalScript 2012 (6.5.132) makes debugging modules a bit easier. If you are developing a script module you most likely already have a script that exercises the various cmdlets in your module. Just load that script…
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Debugging a simple script with a few lines is not a big deal, hit debug and step through it. Almost any PowerShell related editor can do that today. But what if you need to debug a complete system of scripts…
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While we are adapting and verifying all our bits and pieces for PowerShell V3 and Windows 8, we sometimes stumble across little changes from PowerShell V2 behavior. Most of the time this is pretty simple and we can adapt our…
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Once again, SAPIEN will be in attendance at Tech-Ed 2012, this year held in Orlando from June 11th – 14th. If you are going to be there, look for us at booth 1748.
This year, we will be focussing on…
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