PowerShell/vscode-powershell

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Provides PowerShell language and debugging support for Visual Studio Code

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Forks: 548
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 345

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

Built-in `help` function writes Unicode BOM (∩╗┐) to host Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1104 · 16 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Nov 16, 2017
Use new Azure Account Extension to authenticate with Azure PowerShell Open

Area-Configuration Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1103 · Opened Nov 16, 2017
Dark ISE Theme Open

Area-UI Hackathon Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1051 · 26 comments · Opened Oct 11, 2017
Powershell session keeps crashing "The filename could not be assigned within the system" Open

Area-psEditor Issue-Performance

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1049 · Opened Oct 9, 2017
[macOS and Linux] PSES crashes - System.IO.IOException: Too many open files Open

Area-Symbols & References Area-Workspaces Issue-Bug OS-Linux OS-macOS

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#1017 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 1, 2017
PowerShell formatting and indent bug when using the backtick character Open

Area-Script Analysis

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#994 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2017
VS Code\PowerShell - "Formatting Document" Long Execution Time Open

Area-Code Formatting Issue-Performance

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#984 · 30 comments · 11 reactions · Opened Aug 4, 2017
Dynamic Comment Snippet not triggered if backspace is used. Open

Area-Snippets Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#962 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2017
Syntax error markers do not go away after the issue is corrected Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#914 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 22, 2017
PowerShell extension uses PSScriptAnalyzer settings file - Cannot update rules Open

Area-Configuration Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#899 · 9 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 20, 2017
Reduce Integrated Console prompt output/noise while stepping through scripts Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#888 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2017
Feature Suggestion: Cmdlet Help in Editor Right-Click menu Open

Area-UI Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#884 · 9 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2017
Provide an easy way to add additional module paths to PSModulePath via settings Open

Area-Configuration Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#880 · 10 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Jun 14, 2017
Some property types (ScriptProperty and CodeProperty) don't appear in debugger's Variables view Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#826 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2017
Provide a way to save rule list selected with "Select PSScriptAnalyzer Rules" menu Open

Area-Configuration Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#823 · 7 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Jun 2, 2017
Feature Request: Call VSCode commands from $psEditor variable Open

Area-psEditor Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#804 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 31, 2017
Format rule request: Remove all semicolons at the end of lines Open

Area-Code Formatting Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#801 · 7 comments · 4 reactions · Opened May 31, 2017
Add TaskProvider implementation for dynamic task generation Open

Area-Tasks Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#787 · 12 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 26, 2017
Feature request: generate help for Input and Output Open

Area-Snippets Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#768 · 4 comments · Opened May 19, 2017
Allow customization of default values for comment help fields like SYNOPSIS, LINK, and NOTES Open

Area-Snippets Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#764 · 8 comments · Opened May 18, 2017
"Quick fix all" for fixable PowerShell issues Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#733 · 8 comments · 7 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened May 11, 2017
Debugger times out with no terminal output Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Performance

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#683 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 18, 2017
InsertText method inserts lone carriage return characters as new lines. Open

Area-psEditor Issue-Bug OS-Windows

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#5524 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 11, 2017
Debugger operations should print out the action that was taken in Integrated Terminal Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Discussion Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#652 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 5, 2017
`$PSScriptRoot` is not populated when running a code block (via F8) Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#633 · 78 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Mar 30, 2017
Windows spawned from integrated console are hidden behind VS Code window Open

Bug: VS Code Issue-Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#621 · 22 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Mar 24, 2017
Use localizable resources for all user-facing strings Open

Area-UI Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#585 · Opened Mar 20, 2017
Feature Request: Ability to open the terminal with elevated privilages Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#582 · 8 comments · 10 reactions · Opened Mar 20, 2017
[Feature Request] Provide quick way to sign PS scripts with the extension Open

Issue-Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#548 · 18 comments · 16 reactions · Opened Mar 15, 2017
formatting should allow brace indent to match contained code indent Open

Area-Code Formatting Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#462 · 11 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 25, 2017
Add "Apply All Suggested Fixes" command to apply all PSScriptAnalyzer fixes Open

Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#397 · 8 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Dec 19, 2016
Go To Definition/Find All References with Set-Variable Open

Area-Symbols & References Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#379 · 6 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Dec 15, 2016
System and Scope Modifier variables do not evaluate in hover tooltip Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#377 · 6 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2016
Go to Definition of function parameter jumps into first function having that parameter Open

Area-Symbols & References Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#348 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 28, 2016
Suppress platform-specific parse errors Open

Area-Script Analysis Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#301 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 21, 2016
Debug Support for Any Exceptions and Uncaught Exceptions Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#298 · 40 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Sep 20, 2016
"Smart" variable rename Open

Area-Symbols & References Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#261 · 49 comments · 61 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2016
Add command for aborting current script execution Open

Area-Extension Terminal Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#203 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 24, 2016
Add support for workspace profiles Open

Area-Configuration Area-Workspaces Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#190 · 31 comments · 16 reactions · Opened May 18, 2016
Wildcard commands aren't auto-completing Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Enhancement Pending: External

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#153 · 15 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 21, 2016
IntelliSense should work across dot-sourced file references Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#144 · 20 comments · 16 reactions · Opened Apr 15, 2016
Problem passing args to PowerShell program from launch.json - documentation needed Open

Area-Debugging Issue-Bug

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#117 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 15, 2016
Support stopAtEntry Open

Area-Debugging Hackathon Issue-Enhancement Up for Grabs

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#115 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 10, 2016
Intellisense does not show module-private functions Open

Area-IntelliSense Issue-Enhancement

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#104 · 17 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 28, 2016
Is there a cheat sheet for the keybindings and what can be done when debugging? Open

Area-Debugging Area-Documentation Issue-Enhancement

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

PowerShell/vscode-powershell#85 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 5, 2016

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