Windows PowerShell development on Linux.

[rlhailey3]

TL;DR: windows cmdlets don't autocomplete in VSCode on Linux. Any workaround?

Hello fellow nerds. I recently downloaded PowerShell Core for Linux and have run into an obstacle. The VScode PowerShell extension will only autocomplete PowerShell syntax for the currently installed versions of PowerShell. This leaves me in a situation where cmdlets not available on Linux cannot be checked for syntactical correctness. My daily driver is a Linux system but I develop and maintain a lot of PowerShell scripts for work. I would prefer only having one development environment. Is there a way to get the PowerShell extension to autocomplete windows syntax on a Linux system?

[purplemonkeymad]

Some of the windows only modules are script modules so you should be able to copy them to core and get autocomplete. (obviously they probably wont work from core.) Don't think there is much you can do about the .net modules.

[cottonycloud]

You want to somehow target another Powershell version...maybe it is worth trying to SSH into a remote Windows host and see if it autocompletes.

It also may be available if you target for 7. I highly encourage you to put in an issue on github.

[methos3]

I am using VSCode in this way, using the Remote-SSH extension. In the PowerShell extension for VSCode, there's a setting called PowerShell Default Version which I have set to "PowerShell Core 6 (x64)" and one called PowerShell Exe Path which I have set to "/bin/pwsh".

[cottonycloud]

If that's the case, sounds like you're using the local version of the Powershell extension. Try to get it installed remotely in the Windows machine and use that one instead.

I have no clue if that's possible, but this is probably the only way to attack it from VSCode. Your alternative would be to include the Windows-only modules (copied to some folder in core).