The other day I was helping Gladys Kravitz on her transition to VS Code. Like many of you, she has been using the PowerShell ISE for years and has a deeply ingrained workflow. I’ll be the first to admit that making the transition to VS Code is not easy. I remember when I made the…
Tag: VSCode
Doing More with Windows Sandbox
One of the reasons I was looking forward to updating to Windows 10 2004 was to have access to the Windows Sandbox feature. I think I tinkered with a pre-release version and was intrigued. I normally have a set of Hyper-V virtual machines that I can test with, but I’m always looking for something new…
Building More PowerShell Functions
In a recent post I discussed the the process you might go through in developing a PowerShell function. By the end, I not only had a new tool for my PowerShell toolbox, but I had a function outline that I could re-use. If you read the previous article then you should recognize the idea of…
Extending VSCode with PowerShell
Last year I made a conscious decision to jump into VS Code as my primary PowerShell development tool. I had spent years tweaking and customizing the PowerShell ISE so I was a little concerned about the transition. But I knew the only way I’d master VS Code (and I still have a long way to…
More Fun with VSCode Snippets
A few days ago I posted an entry that explained how to create and use snippets in Visual Studio Code. As mentioned in that article I’m attempting to make the transition to VSCode for all my PowerShell work. Being able to use snippets is just one feature that I rely on. And as a number…
Adding PowerShell Snippets to Visual Studio Code
So I’ve recently moved my daily work to a different laptop, a Yoga 900 with 16GB of RAM to be exact. I had been running Windows 8.1 but decided to jump in completely to a Windows 10 environment. As part of the process I’ve also made it a goal to begin using Visual Studio Code…
Configuring the VSCode PowerShell Terminal
Yesterday I posted my experiences in setting up the latest build of VSCode on how to use a PowerShell terminal session. As I explained, in this particular session I didn’t want to run any profile scripts. My reasoning was that this session obviously wasn’t the ISE nor was I likely to use the session like…
PowerShell Sessions and VS Code
If you do any amount of PowerShell scripting you have most likely heard about Visual Studio Code. This is a free cross-platform light-weight editor from Microsoft. VS Code supports multiple languages and is extensible. I’ve tried different versions since it was first released but never found a reason to jump from the PowerShell ISE. For…