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Feature: Add sessionName debug setting to allow different PS for temp console #5208

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Add sessionName debug option to specify PowerShell Session for tempor…
JustinGrote May 31, 2025
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Fix old name reference
JustinGrote May 31, 2025
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20 changes: 19 additions & 1 deletion package.json
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Expand Up @@ -519,7 +519,7 @@
}
},
{
"label": "Run Pester Tests (Binary Module)",
"label": "PowerShell: Run Pester Tests (Binary Module)",
"description": "Debug a .NET binary or hybrid module by running Pester tests. Breakpoints you set in your .NET (C#/F#/VB/etc.) code will be hit upon command execution. You may want to add a compile or watch action as a pre-launch task to this configuration.",
"body": {
"name": "PowerShell: Binary Module Pester Tests",
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"createTemporaryIntegratedConsole": true,
"attachDotnetDebugger": true
}
},
{
"label": "PowerShell: Windows PowerShell",
"description": "(Windows Only) Launch a temporary Windows PowerShell console for debugging. This is useful for debugging legacy scripts that require Windows PowerShell.",
"body": {
"name": "PowerShell: Windows PowerShell",
"type": "PowerShell",
"request": "launch",
"sessionName": "Windows PowerShell (x64)"
}
}
],
"configurationAttributes": {
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"description": "Determines whether a temporary PowerShell Extension Terminal is created for each debugging session, useful for debugging PowerShell classes and binary modules. Overrides the user setting 'powershell.debugging.createTemporaryIntegratedConsole'.",
"default": false
},
"sessionName": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "If specified, uses the PowerShell session name to launch the debug configuration. Will always launch in a temporary console if specified.",
"default": null
},
"attachDotnetDebugger": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "If specified, a C# debug session will be started and attached to the new temporary extension terminal. This does nothing unless 'powershell.debugging.createTemporaryIntegratedConsole' is also specified.",
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29 changes: 27 additions & 2 deletions src/features/DebugSession.ts
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Expand Up @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ export enum DebugConfig {
ModuleInteractiveSession,
BinaryModule,
BinaryModulePester,
WindowsPowerShell,
}

/** Make the implicit behavior of undefined and null in the debug api more explicit */
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createTemporaryIntegratedConsole: true,
attachDotnetDebugger: true,
},
[DebugConfig.WindowsPowerShell]: {
name: "PowerShell: Windows PowerShell",
type: "PowerShell",
request: "launch",
sessionName: "Windows PowerShell (x64)",
},
};

export class DebugSessionFeature
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"Debug a .NET binary or hybrid module loaded into a PowerShell session. Breakpoints you set in your .NET (C#/F#/VB/etc.) code will be hit upon command execution. You may want to add a compile or watch action as a pre-launch task to this configuration.",
},
{
id: DebugConfig.RunPester,
id: DebugConfig.BinaryModulePester,
label: "Run Pester Tests (Binary Module)",
description:
"Debug a .NET binary or hybrid module by running Pester tests. Breakpoints you set in your .NET (C#/F#/VB/etc.) code will be hit upon command execution. You may want to add a compile or watch action as a pre-launch task to this configuration.",
},
];

// Only show the Windows PowerShell option if the platform is Windows
const platformDetails = getPlatformDetails();
if (platformDetails.operatingSystem === OperatingSystem.Windows) {
debugConfigPickItems.push({
id: DebugConfig.WindowsPowerShell,
label: "Windows PowerShell",
description:
"Launch Windows PowerShell in a temporary integrated console for debugging",
});
}

const launchSelection = await window.showQuickPick(
debugConfigPickItems,
{ placeHolder: "Select a PowerShell debug configuration" },
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return PREVENT_DEBUG_START_AND_OPEN_DEBUGCONFIG;
}

if (config.sessionName) {
config.createTemporaryIntegratedConsole = true;
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My only thought is that we tried to move away from "integrated console" to "extension terminal" but I am unsure how much of that name change made it to this particular feature.

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I can probably fix that up, stay tuned.

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So I can either fix it in this PR or we commit this and I submit another PR to rename/alias createTemporaryIntegratedConsole to createTemporaryPowershellSession. Which would you prefer?

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Seeing as this was merged I will address it in separate PR.

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Oh yeah I didn't see it was set to auto complete.

}

if (config.attachDotnetDebugger) {
return this.resolveAttachDotnetDebugConfiguration(config);
}
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): Promise<IEditorServicesSessionDetails | undefined> {
const settings = getSettings();
this.tempDebugProcess =
await this.sessionManager.createDebugSessionProcess(settings);
await this.sessionManager.createDebugSessionProcess(
settings,
session.configuration.sessionName,
);
// TODO: Maybe set a timeout on the cancellation token?
const cancellationTokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource();
this.tempSessionDetails = await this.tempDebugProcess.start(
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15 changes: 12 additions & 3 deletions src/session.ts
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Expand Up @@ -442,6 +442,7 @@ export class SessionManager implements Middleware {

public async createDebugSessionProcess(
settings: Settings,
powershellExeName?: string,
): Promise<PowerShellProcess> {
// NOTE: We only support one temporary Extension Terminal at a time. To
// support more, we need to track each separately, and tie the session
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);
}

const debugPowerShellExeDetails =
powershellExeName === undefined
? this.PowerShellExeDetails
: ((await this.findPowerShell(powershellExeName)) ??
this.PowerShellExeDetails);

// TODO: It might not be totally necessary to update the session
// settings here, but I don't want to accidentally change this behavior
// just yet. Working on getting things to be more idempotent!
this.sessionSettings = settings;

const bundledModulesPath = await this.getBundledModulesPath();
this.debugSessionProcess = new PowerShellProcess(
this.PowerShellExeDetails.exePath,
debugPowerShellExeDetails.exePath,
bundledModulesPath,
true,
false,
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];
}

private async findPowerShell(): Promise<IPowerShellExeDetails | undefined> {
private async findPowerShell(
wantedName?: string,
): Promise<IPowerShellExeDetails | undefined> {
this.logger.writeDebug("Finding PowerShell...");
const powershellExeFinder = new PowerShellExeFinder(
this.platformDetails,
Expand All @@ -727,7 +736,7 @@ export class SessionManager implements Middleware {
let foundPowerShell: IPowerShellExeDetails | undefined;
try {
let defaultPowerShell: IPowerShellExeDetails | undefined;
const wantedName = this.sessionSettings.powerShellDefaultVersion;
wantedName ??= this.sessionSettings.powerShellDefaultVersion;
if (wantedName !== "") {
for await (const details of powershellExeFinder.enumeratePowerShellInstallations()) {
// Need to compare names case-insensitively, from https://stackoverflow.com/a/2140723
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