#POWERSHELL IN VISUAL STUDIO CODE HOW TO#

If you are currently using the PowerShell extension, you will need to disable it before you enable PowerShell Preview for the best performance. Equally important, disabling ISE M ode returns VSCode to your original settings, so you will not lose all your VSCode customizations. However, with the new PowerShell Preview extension, you can get that familiar look and feel by simply enabling ISE M ode.

#POWERSHELL IN VISUAL STUDIO CODE HOW TO#

There are several write-ups on how to configure VSCode to look and behave more like PowerShell ISE. VSCode is very customizable, by using either the Settings editor or by editing the underlying settings.json file.

Recently, a major update to the PowerShell extension was released, PowerShell Preview, and it will make transitioning from PowerShell ISE to VSCode even easier.

It provides syntax highlighting and IntelliSense for cmdlets, very similar to PowerShell ISE. One of my favorite extensions is the PowerShell extension. Built on open source, it has a rich ecosystem of extensions, which you can browse here. It is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. If you are not familiar with VSCode, it is a free, lightweight, cross-platform code editor. Hopefully, you are already using Visual Studio Code. However, it’s no longer in active feature development and does not work with PowerShell 6 and higher. It’s still available for Windows and Microsoft has stated they have no plans to remove the ISE from Windows. Windows PowerShell ISE is a great tool for developing PowerShell scripts.

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