{"id":261,"date":"2014-12-01T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2014\/12\/01\/powertip-avoid-prompt-when-using-debug\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:36:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:36:49","slug":"powertip-avoid-prompt-when-using-debug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-avoid-prompt-when-using-debug\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Avoid Prompt When Using –Debug"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/b>: Boe Prox shows how to avoid being prompted when using <\/span>–Debug<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Hey, I love using –Debug<\/b> in functions to figure out what is going on, but how can I avoid being prompted
           each time I run into Write-Debug<\/b> in my code?<\/p>\n

\"Hey, After you declare your parameters, check for –Debug<\/b>, and set the $DebugPreference<\/b> 
           value to ‘Continue’<\/b> instead of ‘Inquire’<\/b>:<\/p>\n

If ($PSBoundParameters[‘Debug’]) {<\/p>\n

    $DebugPreference='Continue'<\/p>\n

}<\/p>\n

\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary: Boe Prox shows how to avoid being prompted when using –Debug.  I love using –Debug in functions to figure out what is going on, but how can I avoid being prompted            each time I run into Write-Debug in my code?  After you declare your parameters, check for –Debug, and set the $DebugPreference           […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[162,356,3,554,45],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-boe-prox","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-streams","tag-windows-powershell"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Summary: Boe Prox shows how to avoid being prompted when using –Debug.  I love using –Debug in functions to figure out what is going on, but how can I avoid being prompted            each time I run into Write-Debug in my code?  After you declare your parameters, check for –Debug, and set the $DebugPreference           […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}