PowerShell/vscode-powershell

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Provides PowerShell language and debugging support for Visual Studio Code

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Forks: 548
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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

PSReadLine crash trying to assign [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol on MacOS Open

Area-psEditor Needs: Maintainer Attention

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5052 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 23, 2024
Oops something went wrong Open

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5051 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 23, 2024
Treat dot sourced files as links Open

Area-Symbols & References Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5046 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 18, 2024
Rollup: Testing Todos Open

Area-Test Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5042 · Opened Sep 15, 2024
IScriptExtent.File Property is null in VS Code Open

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5038 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2024
The key combination "Ctrl+j" in VSCode powerShell terminal failed to be assigned as PSReadLineKeyHandler Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Maintainer Attention

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5033 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2024
PowerShell extension doesn't start on slow machines Open

Area-Startup Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5031 · Opened Aug 21, 2024
Test support for Powershell intellisense in Codepilot chat code blocks Open

Area-IntelliSense Feature: VS Code Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5025 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 13, 2024
Plan of porting over some features from PowerShell Pro Tools extension Open

Issue-Discussion Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5023 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 7, 2024
IntelliSense is not triggered by trigger characters Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5022 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 3, 2024
Use the progress indicator when IntelliSense is running Open

Area-UI Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5021 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2024
Variable in Watch pane expression is not evaluated in the current function's scope Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5013 · Opened Jul 5, 2024
Code refactoring such as inline or extract as function Open

Area-Code Formatting Feature: VS Code Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5009 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 27, 2024
Intellisense for "[PSCustomObject]" leaves an extra close square bracket causing a syntax error Open

Area-Snippets Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5003 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2024
Review: 1.90.0 VSCode Native PowerShell IntelliSense Issues Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5000 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 6, 2024
Feature Request: Support the "env" key in launch.json for debugging Environment Variable setup Open

Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4998 · 3 comments · 9 reactions · Opened May 29, 2024
Set `Code Formatting:` settings based on existing PSScriptAnalyzerSettings.psd1 so autoformat stays in sync with ScriptAnalyzer Open

Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4993 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 20, 2024
Language Server Becomes Unresponsive After Opening Command Explorer Open

Area-Command Explorer Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4992 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 18, 2024
If Connecting to MSGraph then connecting to ExchangeOnline, error OperationStopped: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Identity.Client, Version=4.44.0.0. Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4982 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2024
Powershell Extension never starts. Terminal Message: "Starting server, deregistering host logger and registering shutdown listener" Open

Area-Engine Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4963 · 11 comments · Opened Apr 5, 2024
Recalling a previous command via PSReadLine in VScode is unusable is the prompt contains U+231B in the CaskaydiaCove NF font Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Maintainer Attention

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4948 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 21, 2024
Incorrect indentation when passing a hashtable as a function argument Open

Area-Code Formatting Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4945 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 18, 2024
Terminating a running script with Ctrl + C does not stop the debugger when using createTemporaryIntegratedConsole Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug Issue-Discussion

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4927 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 25, 2024
Nested ForEach-Object -Parallel Open

Issue-Bug Needs: Triage

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4926 · Opened Feb 23, 2024
Command Explorer: add a catalog as there are too many commands Open

Area-Command Explorer Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4922 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 18, 2024
$Host.PushRunspace with a local runspace kills the terminal Open

Area-Engine Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4921 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 16, 2024
The snippet "Parameter: Suppress PSScriptAnalyzer Rule" is missing a closing quote and comma Open

Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4911 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2024
Completions don't work in a completely empty script file Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4909 · 9 comments · Opened Feb 3, 2024
IntelliSense doesn't honor comment-based help for script files (`.ps1`), absent or broken syntax diagrams Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4904 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 29, 2024
Infinite loop when closing PowerShell process while being attached by the Visual Studio Code debugger Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4887 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 12, 2024
[Test] Switch to VSCode Extension Runner Open

Area-Test Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4880 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 4, 2024
Explicit String Variables (e.g. ${variable}) do not resolve in debugging Open

Area-Symbols & References Issue-Enhancement

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4878 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 3, 2024
Formatting code with 2 spaces after a parenthesis, eats up all the code Open

Area-Code Formatting Issue-Bug Needs: Maintainer Attention

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4866 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 18, 2023
Error on read command input Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Bug Needs: Maintainer Attention

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4851 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 30, 2023
Running script when remoted into another computer Error (Temp Files) Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4836 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 16, 2023
Inline Breakpoint Support Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4803 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 27, 2023
Extension randomly runs something in the background when writing in the code pane Open

Area-Engine Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4773 · 10 comments · Opened Oct 6, 2023
Changing culture settings is not taken into account in the PowerShell Extension's PowerShell instance Open

Issue-Bug

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4770 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 30, 2023
While debugging, run the code until the line at the cursor position. Temporary breakpoint button Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4758 · Opened Sep 27, 2023
PowerShell Extension breaks Standard VSCode comment line code folding for `.ps1` and `.psm1` files Open

Area-Folding Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4745 · Opened Sep 20, 2023
Unable to load Az modules - Assembly with same name is already loaded Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4727 · 33 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Sep 5, 2023
code execution continues to break after breakpoints have been deleted Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4712 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 24, 2023
powershell.integratedConsole.focusConsoleOnReadHost feature request Open

Area-Configuration Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4691 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 8, 2023
add debug configuration for scripts with command-line arguments Open

Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4671 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2023
Default completer for `SuppressMessageAttribute` sets invalid parameter value for `checkId` Open

Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4659 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2023
powershell.scriptAnalysis.settingsPath (Description): Warning Message Should Provide A Workaround Open

Area-Code Formatting Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4653 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jul 8, 2023
PowerShell Extension combability with VSCode Liveshare - terminal and parameter help auto generation not working as intended Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Bug

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4628 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 20, 2023
Enable "Trigger Parameter Hints" for available method/constructor overloads Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4606 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 31, 2023
Issue with the Variable inspector in VSCode's debug viewer for PowerShell Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4604 · 1 comment · Opened May 30, 2023
Duplications in Transcript Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#4596 · 2 comments · Opened May 23, 2023

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