Sydney Smith

PM, PowerShell

PM on the PowerShell team at Microsoft.

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PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code Spring 2023 Update

May 8th, 2023
PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Spring 2023 Update

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 20

March 31st, 2023
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This release includes a major refactor of the module to remove the dependency on the NuGet client APIs for remote repositories. This version of the module, along with the PowerShellGet compatibility module, will be ...

PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code February 2023 Update

February 23rd, 2023
We are excited to announce that the February update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace. In this update we rewrote all the symbol logic. Classes (and their properties and methods) are now proper symbols. We now have a single visitor that builds a cached dictionary of symbols for ...

PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code January 2023 Update

January 20th, 2023
We are excited to announce that the January update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace. This first stable release for the new year includes a multitude of fixes for the debugger! Expanding variables with properties that are inaccessible no longer causes a short-circuit preventing the...

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 18

January 11th, 2023
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as cmdlet. How to Install PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 18 Prerequisites Please note that this preview release of PowerShellGet 3.0 does not support PowerShell 7.0, 7.1...

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 17

September 9th, 2022
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as support for specifying the temporary path used during installation of PSResources. How to Install PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 17 Prerequisites Please note that this...

PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code August 2022 Update

August 30th, 2022
We are excited to announce that the August update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace. This release adds a walkthrough experience for getting started with PowerShell in VS Code, more regression tests, a major LSP client library update, and includes a number of bug fixes! Updates ...

Archive Module 2.0 Preview 2

August 10th, 2022
We are excited to announce that the second preview of a rewrite of Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive, the module that lets you create and extract archives, is now available on the PowerShell Gallery. This release is the second preview release of a rewrite of the module and is not feature complete. Please note that this release is only compatible ...

PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code July 2022 Update

July 31st, 2022
We are excited to announce that the July update to the PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available on the extension marketplace. This release renames the "PowerShell Integrated Console" to the "PowerShell Extension Terminal" to align with VS Code's verbiage, adds many regression tests, and includes a number of bug fixes! ...

PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 16

July 28th, 2022
We are excited to announce that an update to our preview of PowerShellGet 3.0 is now available on the PowerShell Gallery! This release includes ScriptFileInfo cmdlets,  support, and an AuthenticodeCheck for Install. How to Install PowerShellGet 3.0 Preview 16 Prerequisites Please note that this preview release of PowerShellGet 3.0 does ...