Can I get intellisense in powershell?

Question

Edit: Anyone coming to the question now. Please look at the dates. This is a very, very, old question from the first version of PowerShell. Everything is now different

Just starting out with PowerShell, I would love to have intellisense support for writing PowerShell scripts. Tab-completion works great so you would think it would exist somewhere, but the only thing I can find an article from 2007 - hardly up to date.

Is there an extension somewhere that gives you this ability?

How about an editor?

Oca

I looks like this is available on Windows 2012 and above. – Sigurd

@Sigurd intellisense is? or just tab-completion? I use powershell daily and it certainly does not have anything like intellisense. – Oca

Do you use it on windows 2012? It appears to be more than just tab-completion, but to your point it is a far-cry from visual studio quality/features 2013 I ntellisense. – Sigurd

Sure! But it immediately stops working the instant you call it from inside of a function's scope. In other words, it's standard microsoft broken stuff. – Quaint

Answer 1

The Windows PowerShell ISE which is installed with later versions of PowerShell has got built-in intellisense.

Also Visual Studio Code with the PowerShell extension is another option

And ISE Steroids if you want to stay with ISE

But seems direction is VS Code, especially with Core

Hereld

Answer 2

Try this -

http://powergui.org/index.jspa

This is a good editor with intellisense

Gainey

+1 for recommending PowerGUI - its editor component has recently been made available as a Visual Studio Extension too, see my answer on Anyone found a PowerShell Syntax highlighting or IntelliSense plugin for Visual Studio? for details. – Countdown

Answer 3

Have a look on PowerTab.

Telfer

I second this recommendation. It doesn't replace a good editor, but this is such a great addition to the console. – Straley

Answer 4

Also PowerShell Plus (commercial). Or you can wait for PowerShell 2.0 and hopefully get Graphical Windows PowerShell.

Tobiastobie

Why wait for V2? Why not use it now. It is very close to official release. (One month?) I think that unless you have a good reason for staying with V1, you should move to V2. The Integrated Scripting Environment is indeed pretty nice, and it does have intellisense. – Genius

Answer 5

PowerSE is a free PowerShell Editor that includes Intellisense (PowerShell, WMI, and .NET)

Features:

• Includes Auto-Script creation feature - execute a cmdlet, look at the results in a grid view, select and sort columns, then tell it to generate the PowerShell for you.
• Community button to search TechNet and PoshCode for samples.
• Debug features such as breakpoints and stepping through code.
• Watch window to drill into PowerShell variables.
• Context sensitive help.
• Imbedded console window with command recorder.

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Answer 6

Try visual studio code with powershell extension. It works better than Windows PowerShell ISE for me.

Voss

Answer 7

PSReadline now has intellisense right in the console based on the command history. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/announcing-psreadline-2-1-with-predictive-intellisense/

To enable in powershell 7:

Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionSource History

You can also get that version of psreadline in powershell 5.1.

Install-Module PSReadLine -RequiredVersion 2.1.0

Ponder

Answer 8

I think it is the best way that you write TabExpansion.
There are no Autocomplteion tools for posh, like C#'s IntelliSence.
They can't get even $_'s properties even if you use just a standard Cmdlet.

Infrasonic

Answer 9

PowerShell ISE v3 has Intellisense

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27548

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