The Big Book of PowerShell Error Handling

by Dave Wyatt

Despite the title, this is actually a very small, concise book designed to help you understand how PowerShell generates and deals with errors. It’s also designed to help you build the best possible error handling for your own scripts and functions, in just a few short lessons.

This guide is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. The authors encourage you to redistribute this file as widely as possible, but ask that you do not modify the document.

Getting the code Sample code, along with a spreadsheet documenting known exception class names, can be found at https://github.com/devops-collective-inc/big-book-of-powershell-error-handling/tree/master/attachments.

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