#VISUAL STUDIO CODE POWERSHELL WINDOWS#
Windows Notification Centre – Burned Toast Other Burnt Toast Featuresīurnt Toast can do much more, such as Alarms, Sounds and Reminders. New-BurntToastNotification –Text ‘IdentityNow Source Import’ -ProgressBar $ProgressBar -Silent –UniqueIdentifier 'Get Users' -AppLogo "C:\Users\DarrenJRobinson\Images\sailpoint.png"Īs Burned Toast is a Windows Notification, after the toast notification disappears it can still be found in the Notification Centre. $ProgressBar = New-BTProgressBar -Status 'Getting User Objects' -Value $progressDisplay
The PowerShell line looks like this, where $percentComplete is an integer between 0 and 100. Sort of like a Pac-Man consuming dashes and outputting periods. In my example above I’m using the < symbol for the progress position, – for the un-progressed and. Updating the psInlineProgress bar is simply a case of giving the Progress Bar the dialog text you want displayed, in percent the progress, the progressed and un-progressed characters. PowerShellHostName = 'Visual Studio Code Host' Outputting to psInlineProgress You should be able to find it in C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\psInlineProgress\1.1 #PowerShellHostName = 'ConsoleHost' To allow the progress bar to display in VSCode update the psInlineProgress.psd1 file to change Line 36 as shown below.
#VISUAL STUDIO CODE POWERSHELL INSTALL#
You can get it from here if you need a manual install, otherwise it’s quick to install via Install-Module Install-Module -Name psInlineProgress Here is an example inLineProgress Bar Notification The progress bar itself is similar to the Write-Progress one in PowerShell. Nothing major, just a change for the Console (details further below). PsInlineProgress is authored by Øyvind Kallstad and has been around for a few years now, so does require a small tweak to get it to work with VSCode. This post explores both and how I’m using them. One is a text-based console output progress bar and the other uses Windows 10/Windows Server Notification Centre. I’ve found two that I’m happy with and will be using moving forward. I’m definitely not the first to notice this as there is an open issue on Github for it, but seeing as its been open for 2 1/2 years I figured it probably wasn’t going to be resolved soon. Long story short, Write-Progress doesn’t work in VSCode. Well, until I was modifying some old scripts that perform some long running processes and I’d previously added Write-Progress statements in them to provide feedback as to how the script was going. Earlier this year I made the switch from PowerShell ISE to Visual Studio Code (VSCode) and everything has been going just swimmingly.