This extension provides rich PowerShell language support for Visual Studio Code. Now you can write and debug PowerShell scripts using the excellent IDE-like interface that Visual Studio Code provides.
- Windows 7 through 10 with PowerShell v3 and higher
- Linux with PowerShell v6 (all PowerShell-supported distribtions)
- Mac OS X with PowerShell v6
Read the installation instructions to get more details on how to use the extension on these platforms.
- Syntax highlighting
- Code snippets
- IntelliSense for cmdlets and more
- Rule-based analysis provided by PowerShell Script Analyzer
- Go to Definition of cmdlets and variables
- Find References of cmdlets and variables
- Document and workspace symbol discovery
- Run selected selection of PowerShell code using
F8 - Launch online help for the symbol under the cursor using
Ctrl+F1 - Local script debugging and basic interactive console support!
There are some example scripts in the extension's examples folder that you can
use to discover PowerShell editing and debugging functionality. Please
check out the included README.md file to learn more about
how to use them.
This folder can be found at the following path:
c:\Users\<yourusername>\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode.PowerShell-<version>\examples
To open/view the extension's examples Visual Studio Code, run the following from your PowerShell command prompt:
code (Get-ChildItem $Home\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode.PowerShell-*\examples)[-1]
Check out the development documentation for more details on how to contribute to this extension!
This extension is licensed under the MIT License. Please see the [third-party notices](Third Party Notices.txt) file for details on the third-party binaries that we include with releases of this project.