PowerShell/vscode-powershell

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Provides PowerShell language and debugging support for Visual Studio Code

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Indexed issues: 345

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 21, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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345 open issues indexed

Powershell integrated console left previous command output artifacts if a new command has a progress bar Open

Area-UI Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#3241 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2021
Version v2021.2.2 doesn't highlight the #Requires statements Open

Area-Semantic Highlighting Issue-Bug

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#3211 · 8 comments · 4 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 26, 2021
Microsoft.PowerShell.EditorServices.Extensions types are not available in the Integrated Console Open

Area-psEditor Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#3206 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 24, 2021
PSScriptAnalyzer problems don't refresh after changing the settings file Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#3168 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2021
PSScriptAnalyzer is unavailable when using the specific PowerShell statement Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#3155 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 27, 2021
powershell.codeFormatting.autoCorrectAliases not working as expected Open

Area-Code Formatting Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#3143 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 22, 2021
Add option to specify paths for ScriptAnalyzer-evaluation Open

Area-Configuration Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#3048 · 10 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Nov 3, 2020
Can we get back folding on help sections? Open

Area-Folding Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#3028 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 24, 2020
Support Advanced Hovers Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#3026 · 14 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Oct 23, 2020
Extension's Formatter ignores config file. Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#3024 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 22, 2020
Exception showing on Scope variables Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#3020 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 21, 2020
VSCode Debugging with Arguments Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2995 · 8 comments · Opened Oct 9, 2020
ValidateSet/Register-ArgumentCompleter/Enum completions does not work correctly Open

Bug: PowerShell 5.1 Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2982 · 25 comments · Opened Oct 1, 2020
Extension overwrites native colors of the theme Open

Area-Semantic Highlighting Area-UI Issue-Discussion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2959 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2020
Command Explorer never loads for Powershell ver. 7. It does load with 5.1 X64 Open

Area-Command Explorer Issue-Performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2949 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 14, 2020
Execution policy should be checked client side before starting PowerShell Editor Services to prevent cryptic start issues Open

Area-Startup Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2916 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2020
Multiple PowerShell Editor Services in Output Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2909 · 9 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2020
Suggestions for parameter types not working Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2908 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 23, 2020
PS Class type not found error with using module Open

Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2887 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 12, 2020
Semantic Syntax is incorrectly highlighting arguments as commands Open

Area-Semantic Highlighting Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2860 · 20 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 4, 2020
Add support for all token types with the new semantic highlighting Open

Area-Semantic Highlighting Area-UI Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2852 · 11 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2020
When debugging, remember script arguments on a per-script, not per-workspace/folder basis Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 54/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2847 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 31, 2020
Add MRU to argument prompt when debugging a PowerShell script Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2846 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2020
Integrated Console only sets Console.OutputEncoding to UTF-8, not also Console.InputEncoding Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2816 · Opened Jul 20, 2020
Breakpoint not being hit when attaching to debugger Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2792 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2020
Session exited in status bar has bad contrast Open

Area-UI Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2782 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 25, 2020
WriteObject and WriteError methods cannot be called from outside the overrides Open

Area-Code Formatting Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2785 · 10 comments · Opened Jun 25, 2020
Need auto splat extractor implemented in base PowerShell vscode extension Open

Area-psEditor Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2781 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 23, 2020
Small enhancements to temporary debugger console Open

Area-Configuration Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2679 · 6 comments · Opened May 4, 2020
Unrelated Text in PowerShell PS1 File Being Deleted After Copy and Pasting Text Open

Area-Code Formatting Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2675 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 2, 2020
PSReadLine Prompt not showing up after F8 in SSH Remoting Open

Area-PSReadLine Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2605 · 12 comments · Opened Apr 2, 2020
Wire up the progress stream to the withProgress API Open

Area-Engine Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2600 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2020
Corrupted text added during save, not during save without formatting Open

Area-Code Formatting Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2569 · 15 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 18, 2020
Add a public API to enable add-on extensions Open

Area-Startup Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2537 · 6 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 9, 2020
Enable "ISE Mode" at the workspace scope Open

Area-ISE Compatibility Area-Workspaces Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2535 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 8, 2020
ISE Mode Settings Restore Open

Area-Configuration Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2527 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 6, 2020
Turn off warnings until a check is requested by the developer Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2485 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 16, 2020
'Select PSScriptAnalyzer rules' command broke starting with preview extension 2019.11.0 Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2422 · 7 comments · Opened Jan 16, 2020
Multiple PowerShell Integrated Console tabs in Terminal Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2418 · 7 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Jan 15, 2020
Breakpoints not cleaned up if Debug Interactive Session is stopped. Open

Area-Debugging Feature: VS Code Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2371 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 17, 2019
Would like a "Debug" configuration to run in external Posh Console, passing params. Open

Area-Configuration Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2296 · 11 comments · Opened Nov 11, 2019
Conditional breakpoints not working in remote sessions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2295 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 11, 2019
Auto update feature for PS6 doesn't support proxy Open

Area-Startup Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2242 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 16, 2019
Remote editing only works for .ps1 files but not others Open

Area-psEditor Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2166 · 50 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 4, 2019
.net intellisense break in workspaces Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2157 · 7 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2019
hitting F8 switches to PowerShell integrated and executes there Open

Area-Extension Terminal Bug: VS Code Issue-Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2139 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2019
Removals from $ENV:PSModulePath are not respected. Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2127 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 8, 2019
PSDefaultParameterValues on Get-Help for ShowWindow triggers help window on mouse over of cmdlet Open

Area-UI Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2121 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2019
Intellisense not working when more than one DynamicParameter is used Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2117 · 10 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2019
(Preview) PSReadLine Keyboard Commands do not work in the PowerShell Integrated Console (OSX) Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Bug OS-Linux OS-macOS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2114 · 10 comments · Opened Aug 1, 2019

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