$PROFILE is NULL when invoking profile.ps1 and Microsoft.VSCode_profile.ps1

[Liturgist]

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Summary

Here is the output in the TERMINAL window when VSCode PowerShell extension starts. The profile scripts are shown below. When the CurrentUserAllHosts script is run, $PROFILE is NULL. None of these scripts set the value of $PROFILE.

There are two (2) problems.

When one of the non-user profile scripts is invoked (probably AllUsersAllHosts), it appears that the path to the script does not use appropriately placed QUOTATION MARK characters.

When the CurrentUserAllHosts script is run, $PROFILE is NULL.

=====> PowerShell Preview Integrated Console v2021.10.3 <=====

C:\Program: The term 'C:\Program' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
Running profile C:\Users\lit\Documents\PowerShell\profile.ps1
PROFILE is NULL
PS C:\Users\lit>

When the TERMINAL command prompt becomes available, the PROFILE variable now contains the following.

PS C:\Users\lit> $PROFILE | Format-List -Property *

AllUsersAllHosts       : C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\profile.ps1
AllUsersCurrentHost    : C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\Microsoft.VSCode_profile.ps1
CurrentUserAllHosts    : C:\Users\lit\Documents\PowerShell\profile.ps1
CurrentUserCurrentHost : C:\Users\lit\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.VSCode_profile.ps1

These are the profile scripts. Note that both of the Microsoft.VSCode_profile.ps1 files do not exist.

PS C:\> Get-Content -Path 'C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\profile.ps1'
$s = $($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Source)
Write-Host "Running profile $s"
if ($null -eq $PROFILE) {
    Write-Host "PROFILE is NULL"
} else {
    Write-Host "PROFILE is of type $($PROFILE.GetType())"

    $scope = $PROFILE |
        Get-Member -Type NoteProperty |
        Where-Object { $_.Definition.EndsWith($s) } |
        ForEach-Object { $_.Name }
    Write-Host "$($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.ToString()) $scope @ $($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Source)"
}
PS C:\> Get-Content -Path 'C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\Microsoft.VSCode_profile.ps1'
Get-Content: Cannot find path 'C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\Microsoft.VSCode_profile.ps1' because it does not exist.
PS C:\> Get-Content -Path 'C:\Users\lit\Documents\PowerShell\profile.ps1'
$s = $($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Source)
Write-Host "Running profile $s"
if ($null -eq $PROFILE) {
    Write-Host "PROFILE is NULL"
} else {
    Write-Host "PROFILE is of type $($PROFILE.GetType())"

    $scope = $PROFILE |
        Get-Member -Type NoteProperty |
        Where-Object { $_.Definition.EndsWith($s) } |
        ForEach-Object { $_.Name }
    Write-Host "$($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.ToString()) $scope @ $($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Source)"
}
PS C:\> Get-Content -Path 'C:\Users\lit\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.VSCode_profile.ps1'
Get-Content: Cannot find path 'C:\Users\lit\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.VSCode_profile.ps1' because it does not exist.
PS C:\>

PowerShell Version

PS C:\> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.1.5
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.1.5
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.17763
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Visual Studio Code Version

PS C:\> code --version
1.61.2
6cba118ac49a1b88332f312a8f67186f7f3c1643
x64

Extension Version

PS C:\> code --list-extensions --show-versions | Select-String powershell

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Steps to Reproduce

Start VSCode powershell extension with profile scripts included above.

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[rob-peck-wiggle]

I can confirm similar behaviour here - it will not load profiles with spaces in the path when using PowerShell Preview extension. I moved back to PowerShell stable extension and the issue goes away.

[Liturgist]

Rob, thanks for confirming. I have forgotten why, but there was something that the stable version did not do that caused me to use the preview version. Going back to stable may not be a workaround.

I can confirm similar behaviour here - it will not load profiles with spaces in the path when using PowerShell Preview extension. I moved back to PowerShell stable extension and the issue goes away.

[andyleejordan]

Thanks for the bug report! Going to mark this as duplicate as it's reported here too: #3650 (comment)

We totally broke profile loading in the Preview, sorry! Working on fixing and covering with regression tests.