What you see vs what you get : matching source and IL with FxCop and PowerShell

The mapping between the code you write and the object code that gets generated is not always a simple one; F# code in particular is heavily restructured in the compilation phase. So when trying to perform code analysis to detect source level artefacts in the compiled code, some guide is useful to navigate between the two representations.

So, here is a PowerShell script to do just that, looking at the IL instructions or logical statements for a method and the corresponding source code as given via the .pdb debugging information -- PowerShell rather than F# interactive because the former has a much nicer user interaction model, especially when asking the user to resolve which overloaded method name was really intended.

As the script writes rich objects in the successful output to pipeline, it can be used as a starting point for further analysis; or the output can be piped into e.g. Out-GridView for inspection.