Vista - Write-Error doesn't write anyting

I created a new object using new-object PSObject and added a
ScriptMethod. In some cases the method should write error, but it
doesn't.

Consider this code:
$ErrorActionPreference='stop'
New-Object PSObject | Add-Member scriptmethod w {write-error "NO"} -
pass | % { $_.w() };
^__ this works, error is written and the execution is stopped.

But the following code doesn't write anything even when it should:
$ErrorActionPreference='continue' #this is the only change
New-Object PSObject | Add-Member scriptmethod w {write-error "NO"} -
pass | % { $_.w() };

The error is added to $error, but not written to console. Note that
this works:
$ErrorActionPreference='continue' #this is the only change
write-error "error"; get-date

Why write-error doesn't work inside ScriptMethod?

What version of Powershell if v2 what does $psversiontable show?

The below is what I'm seeing with CTP3:

1) Setting the Powershell variable $ErrorActionPerference to 'stop' does not
stop Write-Error from being sent to the console.

2) Unfortunately in your case what I'm seeing is looks to be a bug in
Powershell. Here is what I mean (ErrorActionPerference is in the default
state)

$o = New-Object PSObject | Add-Member -MemberType ScriptMethod {write-error
hello} -Name w -pass

$o.w ## No surprise here, this dump the properties of this member which is
a scriptmethod

$o.w() ## nothing is written to the console

Create a new PSObject ($o1) but use Write-Host/Warning/Output to outuput
the message

$o1.w() ## this will write to the console

Now set ErrorActionPreference to "stop" then when you call $o.w() the error
I see is not "hello" but

"can't call w with 0 arguments ...."

are you seeing the same?

While setting the preference did write an error to the console its not what
I expected. The expected results should be "Hello".

This is the reason I think you should submit a bug report.

bob

"stej" wrote:

On May 11, 11:31*pm, Bob Landau <BobLan...@xxxxxx>
wrote:I use CTP3 as well
When v$ErrorActionPerference is 'stop', write-error should write to
console, it's ok. But the execution of the script/function/.. should
stop.
I tried this code:

$o = New-Object PSObject | Add-Member -MemberType ScriptMethod {write-
error hello } -name w -pass
$ErrorActionPreference = 'continue'
$o.w() # prints nothing
$ErrorActionPreference = "stop"
$o.w() #stops and writes errorIt should work for you in the same way.

Stej,

Yes, we are both seeing the same thing; as I said in the previous post I
believe you found a bug. Do you know how to report it? Do you want to report
it?

For now a work-around is to use Write-Warning which for me will work using
v2 CTP3. At least the users of your script will be able to differentiate
normal output from output to be concerned about.


"stej" wrote:

I asked at twitter how to report a bug, nobody answered. Do you know
where to go?

On May 26, 11:02*pm, stej <cerna.ze...@xxxxxx> wrote:Set up an account at Microsoft Connect http://connect.microsoft.com/,
and you should be able to submit feedback.

Thx, submitted.
https://connect.microsoft.com/feedba...&wa=wsignin1.0