From 1721f348a5fe864661f2a4060f846cfcfcc3b611 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Lee Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 19:40:40 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update instructions to build on VSCode based on pwsh (#5368) --- docs/building/windows-core.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/building/windows-core.md b/docs/building/windows-core.md index a4fcdc5ad7..54d0a099b1 100644 --- a/docs/building/windows-core.md +++ b/docs/building/windows-core.md @@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ This guide assumes that you have recursively cloned the PowerShell repository an You will need to install an edition of Visual Studio 2015 (Community, Enterprise, or Professional) with the optional feature 'Common Tools for Visual C++' installed. The free Community edition of Visual Studio 2015 can be downloaded [here](https://www.visualstudio.com/visual-studio-community-vs/). +### Visual Studio Code + +Building PowerShell using [Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) depends on the PowerShell executable to be called `pwsh` which means +that you must have PowerShell Core 6 Beta.9 (or newer) installed to successfully build this project (typically for the purpose of debugging). + ### .NET CLI We use the [.NET Command Line Interface][dotnet-cli] (`dotnet`) to build PowerShell.