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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<\/a> (VS Code) for my PowerShell work. Like many of you I am heavily invested in the PowerShell ISE so I know this won't be easy. I've customized the PowerShell ISE extensively and have a lot of muscle memory that will need to be re-trained. One of the most important elements for me are snippets.<\/p>\n

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I rely heavily on intellisense and my own snippets to increase my efficiency when working on a script project. Once you get Visual Studio Code installed, along with the PowerShell extension, there is a lot going for you out of the box. Tab completion and intellisense seems to be even more pervasive than in the PowerShell ISE. I suspect many of the snippets I used to rely on are no longer necessary in VS Code.<\/p>\n

But I still want to a few so here's how.<\/p>\n

All of the VS Code snippets are stored in language specific json files. In VS Code click on File - Preferences - User Snippets and start typing 'PowerShell'.<\/p>\n

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Select PowerShell and hit Enter. This will open the default snippets file which is stored in $env:appdata\\code\\user\\snippets\\powershell.json.<\/p>\n

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What you see is a comment describing what to insert.\u00a0 Move your cursor to above the closing curly brace and type the name for your snippet in quotes followed by a colon and open curly brace.<\/p>\n

\"Quote\" : {\r\n<\/pre>\n
The snippet needs a prefix<\/em> which will be the text you type to activate the snippet, a body<\/em> and a description<\/em>. End each line with a comma.<\/p>\n
\"prefix\": \"psquote\",\r\n\"body\": \"# Those who forget to script are doomed to repeat their work.\",\r\n\"description\": \"my PowerShell quote\"\r\n<\/pre>\n
And end on the next line with a closing curly brace. The finished result should look like this:<\/p>\n
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Use Ctrl+S to save the file. Open a new file (Ctrl+N). By default this will be a plain text file.<\/p>\n
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But if you click on the type you can change it to PowerShell. Now VS Code will apply all PowerShell-related features including the new snippet. Start typing the prefix:<\/p>\n
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Hit Enter and the snippet is inserted.<\/p>\n
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Let's add another snippet.\u00a0 After the closing curly brace for the Quote snippet, type a comma and hit enter. Start the snippet on the next line.<\/p>\n
\"Starting MyCommand\" : {\r\n    \"prefix\": \"startingps\",\r\n<\/pre>\n
I like using this line in my functions.<\/p>\n
Write-Verbose \"[$((Get-Date).TimeofDay) BEGIN] Starting $($myinvocation.mycommand)\"\r\n<\/pre>\n
But if I stick that line into the snippet file you'll see there is a problem. [Update: I realized I had a mistake in my code which I've since fixed, although the screen shots may show the \"bad\" code]<\/p>\n
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Red text is never good and there is a squiggle under the opening [.\u00a0 Json files can be tricky. The body value needs to be quoted as a string but I also need the verbose message to be inserted as a string with the double quotes so my variables expand. the trick is to escape those quote marks.<\/p>\n
\"body\": \"Write-Verbose \\\"[$((Get-Date).TimeofDay) BEGIN] Starting $($myinvocation.mycommand.)\\\"\",\r\n<\/pre>\n
Save the PowerShell.json file, go back to the script and insert the 'startingps' snippet.<\/p>\n
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Close -- but I didn't get the $ in front the mycommand variable. In VS Code snippets you can insert placeholders like $1 and $2. In the current state VS Code thinks I'm trying to do that when I really need the literal $. After some trial and error this seems to work.<\/p>\n
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I inserted another $. Now when I save the file and insert the snippet it works as expected.<\/p>\n
My snippets so far have been one-liners. But often I (and you ) will want to insert multiple lines. The only thing you need to do differently is insert the body as an object between a set of square brackets, and end each line with a comma.<\/p>\n
\"my Begin Block\" : {\r\n    \"prefix\": \"myBegin\",\r\n    \"body\": [\r\n    \"Begin {\",\r\n    \"\\tWrite-Verbose \\\"[$((Get-Date).TimeofDay) BEGIN] Starting $($$myinvocation.mycommand)\\\"\",\r\n    \"}\"\r\n    ],\r\n    \"description\": \"my standard begin block\"\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
If you are paying close attention you'll also see \"\\t\" inserted before Write-Verbose<\/a>. This will insert a single tab.<\/p>\n
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If you need a blank line use\u00a0 \"\\r\".<\/p>\n
Sure, it may take a little time to get a snippet set up, but the point is that it is something you will use often and will pay for itself in no time.<\/p>\n
As I continue to explore VS Code I'll share my experiences either here on in the PowerShell section of Petri.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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