Remote Visual Studio Code PowerShell development on a Windows Sandbox instance

You can develop PowerShell scripts on your workstation and run and test them there too... But sometimes... That's not what you want. You could break your workstation with PowerShell code, and your workstation is not clean with all features installed, or settings enabled that your target systems don't. And that's where Visual Studio Code and its Remote SSH extension come into play. This blog post will show you how to combine that with a Windows Sandbox instance.

Jupyter notebooks in VSCode with PowerShell support

Saw a video about Jupyter in Visual Studio Code a while back, tried to get it up and running, and... It seems that things are changed now. It was there in VSCode preview versions and the PowerShell preview extension. All the How-To's I found showed me that way of getting it installed/configured. So I played around with Jupyter and the PowerShell kernel installation and got it working in VSCode. In this blog post, I will show you how to install and configure everything 🙂

How to make your PowerShell scripts look better

When I started writing my first PowerShell scripts... They didn't look that good, it was PowerShell 2.0, of course, and I was just a beginner 🙂 I'm getting better at it, and the newer versions of PowerShell (And Visual Studio Code) have a few nice formatting tricks. This blog post will show you a few ways to make your scripts look better and, more importantly... A lot more readable!