Can I get intellisense in powershell?

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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?

user_27756 · Answer

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

user_6654942 · Answer

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

Can I get intellisense in powershell?

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