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On my last Friday Fun, I posted an article about using Internet Explorer as a trace window<\/a>. The idea was to put debug or trace messages in a separate application. I received a comment on the post that suggested I could do a similar thing using the Debug View<\/a> utility from Sysinternals. This application is used to capture debug messages so I thought I'd give it a try. <\/p>\n

After you download it, you will run to manually run it once to accept licensing terms and setup a filter. I'm assuming you don't regularly use this program for anything else. Depending on your computer you may not need a filter but it is the best way to work with my Debug-Message function.<\/p>\n

#requires -version 2.0\r\n\r\n<#\r\n Requires dbgview.exe from Sysinternals to be in your path or \r\n modify the function. You should set up a filter in dbview.exe\r\n before using this to filter on the Category.\r\n#>\r\n\r\nFunction Debug-Message {\r\n\r\n[cmdletbinding()]\r\nParam(\r\n[Parameter(Position=0,Mandatory=$True,HelpMessage=\"Enter a message\")]\r\n[string]$Message,\r\n[string]$Category=\"PS Trace\"\r\n)\r\n\r\n#only run if $TraceEnabled is True\r\nif ($script:TraceEnabled) {\r\n    #test if dbgview.exe is already running and start it if not.\r\n    if (-NOT (Get-Process -Name Dbgview -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {\r\n      Try {\r\n        #start with \/f to skip filter confirmation prompt\r\n        Start-Process G:\\Sysinternals\\Dbgview.exe \/f\r\n        #give the application to start\r\n        Start-Sleep -Seconds 1\r\n      }\r\n      Catch {\r\n        Write-Warning \"Failed to find or start dbgview.exe\"\r\n        Return\r\n      }\r\n    } #if dbgview is not running\r\n\r\n    #display the message in dbgview.exe\r\n    [System.Diagnostics.Debug]::WriteLine($Message,$Category)\r\n\r\n} #if $TraceEnabled\r\n\r\n} #close Debug-Message\r\n\r\nSet-Alias -Name Trace -Value Debug-Message<\/pre>\n
The essence of this function is the [System.Diagnostics.Debug]::WriteLine($Message,$Category) line. The Category will show up as a prefix to the message in the Debug View window. I set a filter in Debug View on that category, ie PS Trace*. This function, like my IE trace function, relies on a variable $TraceEnabled to be set to $True.  If the dbgview.exe process isn't running, the function starts it. I have hardcoded the path to dbgview.exe which you'll need to adjust. The easiest approach is to drop dbgview.exe into your Windows folder or modify your %PATH% variable to include your Sysinternals folder.<\/p>\n
Using the function is no different than my IE version. In fact, in my demo script all I needed to do was change which script gets dot-sourced.<\/p>\n
# !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! \r\n# dot source the Trace function\r\n#. C:\\scripts\\Trace.ps1\r\n. C:\\scripts\\Debug-Message.ps1\r\n# !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\r\n#>\r\nif ($Trace) {\r\n  #set the variable to turn tracing on\r\n  $script:TraceEnabled = $True\r\n}<\/pre>\n
I added a \"Trace\" alias to my new Debug View function so don't have to change anything else. When I run my script using the -Trace parameter, I get a handy trace window like this.<\/p>\n
\"dbgview-trace\"<\/a><\/p>\n
What's handy about this utility is that it is easy to save the results to a file. I also don't have to deal with messy COM objects. If you don't setup the filter ahead of time you may have a hard time finding the trace messages from your script. But that's your choice.<\/p>\n
What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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