

To support cross-platform PowerShell script development, Microsoft started two new open-source projects. Did I mention that Visual Studio Code is also open source on GitHub? Detecting a trend here? To the surprise of many, Microsoft also open-sourced PowerShell. And, indeed, nine months later, Microsoft made PowerShell available cross-platform, supporting Linux and macOS in addition to Windows.

NET, this was an important prerequisite before taking PowerShell cross-platform. Since the PowerShell integrated scripting environment (ISE) shipped with Windows PowerShell 2.0 in 2009, the PowerShell landscape has changed significantly.

Summary: Learn about the features in Visual Studio Code that help you write PowerShell code.
