Capturing Non-Standard Powershell CmdLet Output for Flow Control

Question

Currently trying to build a script utilizing cmdlets from the MS released \"Team Foundation Server Power Tools\" package.

I\'m attempting to flow command logic from the

Answer 1

Your problem here is that the cmdlet is writing an error (Non-Terminating Error), but not throwing an exception (Terminating Error). You can make it throw an exception by adding the ErrorAction parameter:

trap{echo "fail"}
update-tfsworkspace $workspace_path -recurse -version T -ErrorAction "Stop"

This will cause the cmdlet to make all errors terminating (throwing an exception if it writes to the error stream).