Visual Studio Code

published: February 6, 2021 author: Tinu tags: PowerShell categories: Visual-Studio-Code

Table of Contents
VSCode offline Installation
Extensions for the Visual Studio Code
- Offline Installation
- ISE Experience
  - Customize ISE Experience
  - VS Code Color Customization
VSCode Commands
See also

VSCode offline Installation

Download Source

During the installation, select Additional Tasks, Other and acivate:

Add “Open with Code” action to Windows Explorer file context menu
Add “Open with Code” action to Windows Explorer directory context menu
Add to PATH (available after restart)

Extensions for the Visual Studio Code

The Marketplace offers a variety of extensions for VSCode.

In my opinion, the following extensions are necessary:

PowerShell Language Support for Visual Studio Code
Markdown All in One
Git Extension Pack
Excel Viewer
Python
Jupyter Extension for Visual Studio Code

Offline Installation

Download the desired extension and copy it to the target server.

Set-Location "$($env:ProgramFiles)\Microsoft VS Code\bin"
$Extensions = 'D:\Sources\VSCode' 
foreach($item in (get-childitem $Extensions -Filter '*.vsix')){
     code --install-extension $item.FullName 
}

The extensions are installed in $env:USERPROFILE.vscode\extensions.

ISE Experience

After installing the PowerShell Language Support for Visual Studio Code Extension, select the ISE color theme with Ctrl. + K + T, PowerShell ISE.

Customize ISE Experience

Press Ctrl + Shift + P, Preferences: Open Settings (JSON) complete with the following entries:

{
    "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Program Files\\PowerShell\\7\\pwsh.exe",
    "git.ignoreMissingGitWarning": true,
    "workbench.sideBar.location": "left",
    "workbench.statusBar.visible": true,
    "workbench.activityBar.visible": true,
    "editor.minimap.enabled": false,
    "editor.renderControlCharacters": true,
    "explorer.confirmDelete": false,
    "gitlens.advanced.messages": {
        "suppressShowKeyBindingsNotice": true
    },
    "workbench.startupEditor": "newUntitledFile",
    "editor.tabCompletion": "on",
    "powershell.integratedConsole.focusConsoleOnExecute": true,
    "powershell.integratedConsole.showOnStartup": false,
    "files.defaultLanguage": "powershell",
    "files.autoSave": "onWindowChange",
    "git.autofetch": true,
    "git.confirmSync": false,
    "editor.largeFileOptimizations": false,
    "workbench.colorTheme": "Visual Studio Dark",
    "terminal.integrated.rendererType": "dom",
    "editor.codeActionsOnSave": null,
    "python.languageServer": "Pylance",
}

VS Code Color Customization

To customize the colors of your vscode, paste this settings into the settings.json:

    "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
        "titleBar.activeBackground": "#4249a8",
        "titleBar.inactiveBackground": "#a8ace6",
        "titleBar.activeForeground": "#fff",
        "titleBar.inactiveForeground": "#c5c3c3",
        "statusBar.foreground": "#fff",
        "statusBar.background": "#4249a8"
    }

How to replicate the ISE experience in Visual Studio Code

VSCode Commands

code --extensions-dir
     Set the root path for extensions.
code --list-extensions
     List the installed extensions.
code --show-versions
     Show versions of installed extensions, when using --list-extension.
code --install-extension ( | )
     Installs an extension.
code --uninstall-extension ( | )
     Uninstalls an extension.
code --enable-proposed-api ()
     Enables proposed API features for extensions. Can receive one or more extension IDs to enable individually.

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