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Tonight on the PowerScripting Podcast we talk to John Robbins about Debugging!

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• User group news:
  • NYC - July 12th, deep dive into jobs & regular expressions{#hjk4}
• Kirk Munro give us a heads up about forthcoming PowerShell support in Visual Studio{#qcn9}
• Idera has just released PowerShell Plus 3.5 beta to the public{#qiab}
• Oisin just put up a new Codeplex project: PowerShell Script Provider{#gezw}

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Links:

• 10:33 ChadMiller: PSUnit http://psunit.codeplex.com/{#k16v}
• 10:17 Jaykul:http://poshcode.org/1562{#iwy2}  PerformanceTracking Module which lets you check after the fact the runtime and memory footprint for any commands you run
• 10:35 xcud: psunit demo; http://bit.ly/bjrek8{#od-u}
• http://wintellect.com{#xpuj}
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/johnguin/{#mbv0}

Questions:

• 10:11 glnsize: ## So from a hardcore windows debuger/perf guy… What pitfalls / best practices do you preach for powershell?
• 10:24 finked: ## Any thoughts on what PowrShell needs or the direction it should take?
• 10:25 Jaykul: ## most useful parts of powershell for developers.
• 10:29 glnsize: ##  So what is the use case for write-debuge… I use write-verbose/break points.  How should / Could I use the degug pipeline.
• 10:38 Jaykul: ## So, in the real world, how do you see developers using PowerShell?
• 10:40 Jaykul: ## TFS eh? Do you see many people doing build scripts?

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• PowerShellPoint from John Robbins{#co6-}
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