How to make powershell tell me about missing DLLs?

Question

I use powershell as shell in Windows. When I\'m trying to launch some application who\'s dll dependencies are missing in PATH environment variable, then nothing happens, powersh

Answer 1

I am afraid there is no way to get that info... But try to read

An Introduction to Error Handling in PowerShell http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kebab/archive/2013/06/09/an-introduction-to-error-handling-in-powershell.aspx

or PowerShell Tutorial – Try Catch Finally and error handling in PowerShell http://www.vexasoft.com/blogs/powershell/7255220-powershell-tutorial-try-catch-finally-and-error-handling-in-powershell

Try
{
    $AuthorizedUsers = Get-Content \\ FileServer\HRShare\UserList.txt -ErrorAction Stop
}
Catch [System.OutOfMemoryException]
{
    Restart-Computer localhost
}
Catch
{
    $ErrorMessage = $_.Exception.Message
    $FailedItem = $_.Exception.ItemName
    Send-MailMessage -From ExpensesBot@MyCompany.Com -To WinAdmin@MyCompany.Com -Subject "HR File Read Failed!" -SmtpServer EXCH01.AD.MyCompany.Com -Body "We failed to read file $FailedItem. The error message was $ErrorMessage"
    Break
}
Finally
{
    $Time=Get-Date
    "This script made a read attempt at $Time" | out-file c:\logs\ExpensesScript.log -append
}