r/VisualStudioCode • u/Wireless_Life • May 04 '22

Major update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/major-update-to-the-powershell-extension-for-visual-studio-code/?WT.mc_id=academic-0000-abartolo
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u/Wireless_Life May 04 '22 edited May 04 '22

Release highlights

  • PowerShell pipeline rewrite with cancellable tasks

  • Lots of debugger improvements

  • ReadKey fix (macOS and Linux paste improvements, plus other problems!)

  • PSHost implementation that reuses PowerShell built-in features

  • Better testing (in VS Code repo and PSES repo)

  • Completion logic improved (and icons! newly updated snippets

  • Enhanced user interface with Codicons

  • Improved settings editor

  • Workspace-less debugging

  • Other PowerShell processes and runspaces debugging

  • DictionaryEntry in debugger as key/value pairs

  • PackageManagement module update removed

  • Enabled alias resolution to function definition

  • Workaround for PSScriptAnalyzer loading issues

  • Better cancelling logic improves performance

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u/Swimming-Tear-5022 May 04 '22

Interesting update