As you have seen, the PowerShell ISE is quite a good tool, but still missing some features. Nevertheless, it comes with any Windows environment and is a helpful tool for creating valuable scripts and debugging them, if necessary. In comparison, we will now take an initial look at VSCode and how to set it up for the creation of PowerShell code. An explanation of and the usage of advanced techniques of VSCode will be covered throughout the rest of the book.
Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a lightweight open-source editor, which is free for private and commercial use. Technically, VSCode is built on the framework Electron. Electron is known as a toolset to deploy Node.js applications that are running on the Blink layout engine. The underlying editor is the Monaco Editor. Like the PowerShell ISE, it also has IntelliSense capabilities, which are even available for many more languages. You can easily extend VSCode with the installation of additional extensions. These...