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PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio 2015

3.0.539

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Requires Visual Studio 2015

This package was approved by moderator AdmiringWorm on 5/15/2017.

PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio – PowerShell editing and debugging in Visual Studio.

Requirements

Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
PowerShell v3 or later

Overview

PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio brings the richness of the Visual Studio development experience together with the power of PowerShell. Using this extension you can:

Edit, run and debug PowerShell scripts locally and remotely using the Visual Studio debugger
Create projects for PowerShell scripts and modules
Leverage Visual Studio’s locals, watch, call stack for your scripts and modules
Use the PowerShell interactive REPL window to execute PowerShell scripts and command right from Visual Studio
Automated Testing support using Pester

Details

An improved editing experience offers syntax highlighting, IntelliSense and code folding. You can quickly navigate your scripts with a function selection drop down.
A rich debugging experience allows you to execute and single step through local and remote scripts. With support for breakpoints, the locals window and the call stack window you can easily find and fix bugs in your scripts.
Support for running utilizing features such as DSC, Workflows and 64-bit modules (e.g. Sharepoint).
The PowerShell Interactive Window provides instant execution with IntelliSense and remote session support.
A project system is available to organize scripts and easily integrate with source control systems. It also offers a mechanism to provide module information for use in MSBuild scripts.
Test adapter support for discovering and running Pester tests.

To install PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio 2015, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

C:\> choco install visualstudio2015-powershelltools

To upgrade PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio 2015, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

C:\> choco upgrade visualstudio2015-powershelltools

Files

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tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1 Show

$packageArgs = @{
  PackageName   = 'visualstudio2015-powershelltools'
  VsVersion     = 14
  VsixUrl       = 'https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c9eb3ba8-0c59-4944-9a62-6eee37294597/file/199313/5/PowerShellTools.14.0.vsix'
  Checksum      = 'D340BE9AC8C726C3050B631EFDB8830ABE60BD89D7652D5874E8E780407C04A1'
  ChecksumType  = 'sha256'
}

Install-ChocolateyVsixPackage @packageArgs

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Dependencies

This package has no dependencies.

Package Maintainer(s)

jberezanski

Software Author(s)

Microsoft

Release Notes

Software

PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio Release Notes

Package

3.0.539: Initial package release for software version 3.0.539.

Version History

Version	Downloads	Last updated	Status
PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio 2015 3.0.539	447	Monday, May 8, 2017	approved

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