Export-SPOTaxonomy and Debugging PNP PowerShell about pnp-powershell HOT 2 CLOSED

There is absolutely a way to debug them. Open the solution in Visual Studio, build the project and make sure that you do NOT have the prebuild package installed (e.g. the one that comes as an MSI). The build command (make sure you build in debug mode) will copy the assemblies to a folder called:

c:\users\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\etc. etc.

That path is added to your PSModulePath environment variable by default and the moment you launch a powershell session it will automatically load the modules available there. Then in Visual Studio attach the debugger to the powershell session you just launched and you should be set. Make sure that if you use the latest version of the powershell cmdlets in Visual Studio you also need a full copy of the core library on your computer (e.g. the source code) as many of the PnP PowerShell cmdlets are simply wrappers around Core library methods, e.g. the work is done in the core library.

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Thanks that worked. The solution was installed using the msi. It actually appeared multiple times in the list of installed programs when I used add/remove programs.

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