There is a new kid in the PowerShell block. Microsoft PowerShell team has announced a new preview ISE version which is separate from WMF 5.0. This product is uploaded to the PowerShell Gallery, to provide more agile builds rather than waiting to be packaged with WMF. You can run both ISE Preview and OS built-in ISE version side by side without any conflict.
Getting Started
In order to run the ISE preview you should have WMF 5.0 installed. Unless you are using Windows 10 you need to download and install WMF 5.0 package.
Update
WMF 5.0 package has been removed from the Download Center due to a bug. Please refer the announcement here. Therefore you will have to stick with Windows 10 as of the writing of this post.
- Open a PowerShell window with elevated privileges and execute below cmdlet. Alternatively you can use -Scope CurrentUser parameter if you wish to install the preview only for your user account.
Install-Module -Name PowerShellISE-preview
- Following cmdlet will install Start menu shortcuts for ISE preview.
Install-ISEPreviewShortcuts
- To start the ISE preview type isep and press enter.
- To update the ISE module simply execute below cmdlet.
Limitations
- Currently the ISE Preview only works with PowerShell v5 installed, either with Windows 10 or with WMF 5.0
- This release is English-only.
- There is a possibility for existing add-ons to have issues with the new ISE Preview. PowerShell team states that ISE Steroids and Azure Automation Authoring Toolkit seems to be working fine with the new preview according to their testing.