18.8. Summary
Debugging in Windows PowerShell is, like debugging in any other language, something of a black art. I discussed how simple syntax errors could cause potentially puzzling and sometimes silent errors.
This chapter introduced you to the set-psdebug cmdlet that allows you to set the volume of debugging information that is displayed. It also introduced the write-debug cmdlet, which allows you to output custom debug information, and showed you how to use the $DebugPreference variable to vary how write-debug statements are handled. In addition, it briefly described the trace-command, set-tracesource, and get-tracesource cmdlets.
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