What is Powershell ISE?

The Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) is a host application for Windows PowerShell.

In Windows PowerShell ISE, you can run commands and write, test, and debug scripts in a single Windows-based graphic user interface with multiline editing, tab completion, syntax coloring, selective execution.

You can use menu items and keyboard shortcuts to perform many of the same tasks that you would perform in the Windows PowerShell console.

To start PowerShell ISE, type powershell in search box of  Windows10 (as shown below) and click PowerShell ISE tool to open it. Or, search for powershell_ise.exe.

PowerShell ISE

Type your commands here and do the magic…. !!

How to enable PowerShell development in Visual Studio?

Step 1: Install  Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET

Step 2: Install the PowerShell extension for Visual Studio. In the Extensions view, type PowerShell in the search box, and then press Enter. The PowerShell extension from Microsoft should show up at the top of the search results.

Once extension is installed you’ll see following when you create a new project inside Visual Studio:

You are done!!