PowerShell Pro Tools

PowerShell Pro Tools adds script packaging, Form Designers, variable explorer, VS Code automation and more!

Note: This extension is not free and requires a license to operate.

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Installation and Licensing

When using the PowerShell Pro Tools extension for the first time, you will be prompted to enter a license if you do not have one already.

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Features

Automate Visual Studio Code
Debugging Helpers
- Run in new Terminal
- One-Click Attach
.NET Decompiler
Enhanced Hover
- AST Hover
- Variable Value and Type Hover
Generate UI from a Function
Generate Tool from a Function
Compile to Executable
PowerShell Explorer
- AST Explorer
- Custom Tree View
- History Explorer
- Host Process Explorer
- Modules Explorer
- Providers Explorer
- Reflection Explorer
- Session Explorer
- Variables Explorer
Profiler
Pin Session
Sign On Save
RapidSense
Refactoring
- Convert to $_
- Convert to $PSItem
- Convert to Multiline Command
- Convert to Splat
- Export Module Member
- Extract Function
- Extract Selection to File
- Generate Function from Usage
- Generate Proxy Function
- Introduce Using Namespace
- Reorder Parameters
- Split Pipeline
Rename Symbol
Out-VSCodeGridView
Quick Scripts
Windows Forms Designer
WPF Designer

Automate Visual Studio Code

You can automate Visual Studio Code with PowerShell scripts. Script repetitive actions and make your own tools without having to build extensions.

Available Commands

Open Documents

Open-VSCodeTextDocument -FileName .\form.designer.ps1

Close Text Editors

Get-VSCodeTextEditor | Remove-VSCodeTextEditor

Get Document Text

Get-VSCodeTextDocument | Get-VSCodeTextDocumentText

Insert Document Text

$position = New-VSCodePosition -Line 0 -Character 2
Get-VSCodeTextDocument | Add-VSCodeTextDocumentText -Position $position -Text NewText

Remove Document Text

$Range = New-VSCodeRange -StartLine 0 -EndLine 0 -StartCharacter 0 -EndCharacter 10
Get-VSCodeTextDocument | Remove-VSCodeTextDocumentText -Range $Range

Setting Text Decorations

$Range = New-VSCodeRange -StartLine 0 -EndLine 0 -StartCharacter 0 -EndCharacter 55
Get-VSCodeTextEditor | Set-VSCodeTextEditorDecoration -BackgroundColor 'descriptionForeground' -Range $Range -Key 12321 -FontWeight bold

Send Text to a Terminal

Get-VSCodeTerminal | Where-Object Name -eq 'PowerShell Extension' | Send-VSCodeTerminalText -Text 'Write-Host "Hello World!"'

Showing Messages

Show-VSCodeMessage -Message 'Error!!!' -Type Error

Showing Messages with a Response

Show-VSCodeMessage -Message 'What should we do?' -Items @('Party', 'Sleep')

Showing a Quick Pick List

Show-VSCodeQuickPick -PlaceHolder 'What should we do?' -Items @('Party', 'Sleep')

Showing an Input Box

Show-VSCodeInputBox -PlaceHolder 'Enter some text'

Setting the Status Bar Message

Set-VSCodeStatusBarMessage -Message 'Hellllloooo'

Debugging Helpers

Run in New Terminal

Execute a PowerShell script in a new terminal instead of the integrated terminal.

One-Click Attach

Attached to external PowerShell hosts for debugging.

See it in action

.NET Decompiler

Decompile .NET types that are loaded into your PowerShell session.

Enhanced Hover

Enhanced hover support provides additional information about symbols within PowerShell scripts.

AST Hover

Variable Value and Type Hover

Generate UI from a Function

The PowerShell: Generate Windows Form command will generate a Windows form based on the function defined within a PS1 file.

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Generate Tool from a Function

The PowerShell Pro Tools: Generate Tool command will generate a form and compile it to an executable based on the function defined within a PS1 file.

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Compile to Executable

You can compile PowerShell scripts into executables using the Package Script as Exe function. Customize packaging with a package.psd1 file to create PowerShell 7 executables, services, hide the console window and more.