Visual Studio Code

Learning Existing and Setting Up New Keyboard Shortcuts in Visual Studio Code for the PowerShell Enthusiast

I’ve recently made myself start using Visual Studio Code for writing some of my PowerShell code and I thought I would share a few of the tips that I’ve learned. If you haven’t read my blog article titled Use the PowerShell Console from within Visual Studio Code, I definitely recommend taking a look at it as today’s blog article assumes that you’ve already made those modifications to your Visual Studio Code environment....

Use the PowerShell Console from within Visual Studio Code

I recently revisited Visual Studio Code. I was looking for a markdown editor and remembered seeing a tweet a few weeks ago saying that VS Code could be used to edit markdown. It supports markdown by default, although I would recommend adding a spell check extension to it. I thought that it would be convenient if I could write my PowerShell code right from within the same interface that I’m writing other things such as markdown....

Installing Visual Studio Code and the PowerShell Extension

Last week Microsoft released a new version of Visual Studio Code along with an extension for writing PowerShell in it. Visit code.visualstudio.com to download Visual Studio Code. There’s also an update link on that page if you happen to have a version prior to 0.10.1. The PowerShell extension for Visual Studio Code only works with PowerShell version 5. Either Windows 8.1 with the WMF 5 Production Preview installed or Windows 10 is sufficient....