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

Accept multiple suggested corrections from PSScriptAnalyzer Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2076 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2019
ISE Add-Ons Open

Area-Configuration Area-psEditor Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2069 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 5, 2019
ConvertTo-SecureString hangs PowerShell host when run in the VS Code debugger within a local Azure Function host Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2050 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 25, 2019
Extension crashes when formating Open

Area-Code Formatting Area-Script Analysis

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 18/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2027 · 9 comments · Opened Jun 17, 2019
PSModulePath mutated during script changes Open

Area-Engine Issue-Performance

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2008 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 4, 2019
Make file paths with spaces in the console work as clickable links Open

Area-UI Feature: VS Code Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1995 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 31, 2019
Command Explorer doesn't sort like Show-Command Open

Area-Command Explorer Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1993 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 29, 2019
PowerShell Integrated Console: "Value cannot be null" for missing mandatory parameter when debugging Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1969 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 20, 2019
Multi-file debugging with breakpoints Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1898 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 17, 2019
Debug watched array item is shown as an empty string Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1897 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 17, 2019
Error: The scope number '7' exceeds the number of active scopes. Parameter name: ScopeID Open

Area-Documentation Area-PSReadLine Area-Threading Issue-Bug

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1856 · 18 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 9, 2019
Feature Request: Refactor - Extract Method Open

Area-Symbols & References Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1829 · 6 comments · 42 reactions · Opened Mar 31, 2019
Option to Show Running State in Toast Notification or Statusbar Open

Area-UI Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1799 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 18, 2019
focusConsoleOnExecute not working when using debug with argument prompt Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1798 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 16, 2019
Command Explorer lists multiple commands with the same name Open

Area-Command Explorer Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1685 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 8, 2019
PSSession is very slow Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Performance

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1648 · 12 comments · Opened Dec 11, 2018
In VSCode tab-completion doesn't fix the casing as it does in PowerShell ISE Open

Area-UI Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1624 · 11 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 1, 2018
Autoformat cmdlet (and parameters) capitalization Open

Area-Code Formatting Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1584 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 15, 2018
Process-arrow not showing after breakpoint Open

Area-Engine Area-UI Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1582 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 15, 2018
Add doc comment help Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1577 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Oct 12, 2018
Extremelly slow module import in integrated console Open

Area-Engine Area-Threading Issue-Performance

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1556 · 5 reactions · Opened Oct 1, 2018
Implement HelpMessage in the interactive console Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1538 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 20, 2018
Here string intellisense completion and indentation Open

Area-Snippets Issue-Enhancement

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1517 · 10 comments · 2 reactions · 2 assignees · Opened Sep 7, 2018
Debug Session not respecting Added or removed Breakpoints & Integrated Shell Crash Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1494 · 18 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Aug 22, 2018
Hyperlink Cmdlets to URL in Related Links Help section Open

Area-UI Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1482 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 15, 2018
PSScriptAnalyzer not working correctly on Visual Studio Code Open

Area-Script Analysis Area-Threading Issue-Bug Issue-Performance

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1476 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 10, 2018
Pass parameters to PowerShell.exe (specifically NonInteractive) Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1470 · 5 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 7, 2018
PowerShell profile not loaded in temporary PowerShell Integrated Console when `powershell.debugging.createTemporaryIntegratedConsole` is set to true Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1468 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 6, 2018
Allow VSCode configuration of PSScriptAnalyzer rules Open

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

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1443 · 12 comments · 11 reactions · Opened Jul 20, 2018
integrated console starts immediately if untitled editor is reloaded Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1420 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 11, 2018
Create a documentation page for the settings Open

Area-Documentation Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1399 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 2, 2018
Debugger Does Not Handle Unicode/UTF-8 Characters Properly Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1392 · 14 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2018
Better intellisense for .NET? Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1356 · 18 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jun 10, 2018
Put the setLanguageConfiguration code in the appropriate place Open

Area-Configuration Issue-Discussion

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1349 · Opened Jun 5, 2018
Add CopyVariable PAth to clip option in debugger pane Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1328 · 4 comments · Opened May 20, 2018
Include Snippet Best Practices in Snippets Doc Open

Area-Documentation Issue-Discussion

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1311 · Opened May 5, 2018
File operations won't work on case-sensitive file systems on macOS Open

Area-psEditor Issue-Discussion

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1304 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2018
Console hangs when running a code selection in remote session file. Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1275 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 18, 2018
Powershell Code is working well on Powershell.exe and Powershell ISE but not working on VS Code Open

Area-Engine Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1267 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 12, 2018
$env:PSModulePath Question / Potential Issue Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1266 · 7 comments · Opened Apr 11, 2018
[PSScriptAnalyzer] Updating of Problems pane intermittent Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Performance

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1216 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 27, 2018
Wish: Is there a way to show Variables when executing line (F5) or block (F8) Open

Area-UI Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1204 · 17 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 21, 2018
Window focus during debug in VSCode Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1175 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 26, 2018
Startup script for temporary interactive console debug sessions Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1168 · 9 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jan 18, 2018
Tab complete for [PSCustomObject] tab completes [System.Management.Automation.PSCustomObject] Open

Area-IntelliSense Bug: PowerShell Core Issue-Bug Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1149 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 4, 2018
PowerShell process CPU spikes, terminates Open

Issue-Performance

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1134 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 22, 2017
[PSCore Align] Update contributing docs with top-level CONTRIBUTING.md Open

Area-Documentation Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1126 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 19, 2017
Invalid Argument warning appearing when pressing tab. Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1118 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 6, 2017
Debugging: $WhatIfPreference is always reported as $false Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1109 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 22, 2017
Suggestion: Include 'Run in External PowerShell Window' by default in debug options Open

Area-Configuration Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1108 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 19, 2017

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