PowerShell Integrated Console prompt does not appear

PowerShell Integrated Console

After installing the Microsoft PowerShell Extension, it appears that I can choose a TERMINAL of “powershell” or “PowerShell Integrated Console.”

The “powershell” TERMINAL appears to work as expected, but no debugging can be done.

“”“Cannot debug or run a PowerShell script until the PowerShell session has started. Wait for the PowerShell session to finish starting and try again. “””

The “PowerShell Integrated Console” TERMINAL does not. It appears hung. It accepts no keyboard entry.

This is based on a fresh install of VS Code from VSCodeUserSetup-x64-1.45.1.exe.

Version: 1.45.1 (user setup)
Commit: 5763d909d5f12fe19f215cbfdd29a91c0fa9208a
Date: 2020-05-14T08:27:35.169Z
Electron: 7.2.4
Chrome: 78.0.3904.130
Node.js: 12.8.1
V8: 7.8.279.23-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18363

PowerShell extension 2020.4.0
%USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode.powershell-1.8.2\ms-vscode.powershell-1.8.2
    (PS: There is no "examples" subdirectory)

[MoonRaker58]

@rjmholt I get a not authorized error with that build. I did try preview v2020.7.0 and it works so I’m going to use that one for a while. Thanks for the work.

[ArtisanByteCrafter]

I seem to have pinpointed the exact release that started this behavior for me.

I downgraded every version of the PS Preview extension until the issue was fixed. I had to go back to v2020.1.0 for the issue to finally become resolved. Once i updated to 2020.2.0 or anything more recent, it breaks again. This might be useful for finding the bug, and for anyone who needs a working version in the mean time.