In the last chapter, you learned about different PowerShell versions and how to use them. But one of the most important things for creating fast, reusable, high quality code work with good tools. As you know from the previous chapter, one of the most popular tools is the integrated PowerShell ISE in Windows. It provides an easy UI and also some debugging possibilities. Unfortunately, it has not received many updates since it was initially released. This is why other tools were raised in the meantime. One of the most important ones is Visual Studio Code. This chapter will show the differences between the two tools and introduce VSCode. In Chapter 11, VSCode and PowerShell Release Pipelines, this is going to be continued and some advanced techniques with VSCode will be described.

These are the topics we'll be covering in this chapter:

• Introduction to currently available tools
• The PowerShell ISE
• VSCode:
  • Introduction
  • Download
  • Installation
  • First Start
  • Basics
• The ISE versus VSCode