This is how the PowerShell integrated scripting environment (ISE) debugger works. It launches the file in the active editor window under the debugger. PowerShell Launch (current file) – This is what we have been using.These launch configuration support the following debug scenarios: This whole process is shown in the following screenshot:īy default, the PowerShell extension initially configures your launch.json file with the three launch configurations that are in the following screenshot: Your list may differ depending on the extensions that you have installed. You will be see a list of available debuggers: Now click the gear icon that’s highlighted in the previous screenshot next to the dropdown. Open the Debug view, and you will note that the Launch Configuration dropdown indicates that there are “No Configurations” as shown in the following screenshot: Select Open Folder… from the File menu to open a folder that contains one or more of your PowerShell scripts. Let’s look at an example of creating the PowerShell launch configurations for the debugger. ![]() Create and select from multiple launch configurations.Create a launch configuration to attach to the interactive session, that is, Debug Console.Create a launch configuration to launch whichever file is in the active editor window (like in ISE).Create a launch configuration that always starts a specific script with the specified arguments.It turns out that having a launch configuration file can be quite handy because it allows you to: You may be wondering why you should bother with this launch.json file if you can debug without it. If the workspace is controlled by a software configuration management tool such as Git, you will typically want to add the config files that are under. The name of the JSON file that stores debugger launch configurations is launch.json. Visual Studio Code stores debugger launch configurations, like the other configuration and settings files that we’ve encountered so far, in another JSON that‘s stored under the. Typically, you open a folder that is the root of your Git repository and/or project folder. When you open a folder, Visual Studio Code designates that folder as the workspace root. Workspace debugging occurs when you start a debug session after you have opened a folder via Open Folder… from the File menu. When you open a folder, you are in a regular workspace, and the status bar will be blue. When you open a file, Visual Studio operates in “no-folder workspace” mode as indicated by the purple status bar. If you don’t see the animation, click the image to start the animation. Debugging a PowerShell script is that simple in Visual Studio Code 1.9! In the following example, I open a single script file, set a breakpoint, and press F5. That is, you can open a single PowerShell file instead of a folder and still debug it. With the 1.9 release of Visual Studio Code, you can now debug a PowerShell script with no debugger configuration required and no need to open a workspace. ![]() Now we will examine the various ways that you can start to debug PowerShell script with Visual Studio Code. In Part 1, we looked at the debugging features of Visual Studio Code with the PowerShell extension installed. Here’s the same commands run in the ISE.Welcome to Part 2 of the series about how to debug PowerShell in Visual Studio Code. ![]() What I found works best is writing the commands in the ISE and pasting them into the console window where you want to debug.įor those of you that use the ISE most of the time, you have one problem. A little hint when single stepping pipelines is if you are setting a command breakpoint on something like Get-ChildItem, you’re going to hit it all the time. That makes it super easy to debug the pipeline. I love how the tildes show you exactly where you are in the pipeline. PS C:Junk> Get-ChildItem *.exe | ForEach-Object.PS C:Junk> Set-PSBreakpoint -Command Get-ChildItem.
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