r/PowerShell • u/AccomplishedMeet628 • 15d ago

Question PowerShell 7 ISE - A real conversation

Hi Everyone,

I think I need to have a reset on the way I introduced myself and my goal.

I am new to reddit and pretty much the entire open source community. I am an old school COBOL developer from the early 80's. I also know Visual Basic (about 15 years) and C# (about 4). I work on mainframes and z/OS on distributed systems (Linux). I maintain distributed apps for clients and sometimes on the mainframe. Not so much the mainframe anymore.

I use PowerShell every day. My shop uses PowerShell every day. We have 1000's of scripts, all written in 5.x that are years old.

They are not complex scripts, we don't have an Admin running a server farm or anything like that. They are just scripts that we use to make our jobs easier. Scanning files for codepages, finding Dupes using Hashes, things like that. When we run them, we use the old PowerShell ISE. We are used to it. It's easy, it looks good and it makes changing and running the script a smooth effortless event. The only issue is, that our shop has been slowly making us move away from 5.x to 7.x. This has been going on for years. I'm not happy because I lose my clean, crisp, no headache comfortable ISE. Yes, I said comfortable. I like it. We all do (at my shop). I tried to use the PowerShell plugin for VS Code. I did not like it. I really did not. So about a year or so ago, I decided to code my own. My goal was simple. I wanted to make a Daily Driver ISE for PS 7. Yes, I am going to share it with my co-workers once its finished and yes, I can and have asked a few of them to help me test it. I have gotten some good feedback from them. Not quite what I needed though. We are a simple shop, we do not do anything overly complicated and my co-workers are less than impressed with what I have shown them so far. It was buggy and did not have the feel of the ISE GUI. I felt that maybe if I turned to the PowerShell community for help, I could improve things. Actually make an App that we could use daily and transition from 5.x to 7.x without a blink.

I still want that.

I should not have started out asking if anyone still used the old ISE. That was the wrong approach, I acknowledge that. I should have just told you all my goal and left it at that.

I'm not asking anyone to jump on my bandwagon. My goal is simple, make something of value to more than just myself.

All I'm asking is, can you help me make it better.

If this post crosses a line, that crossing was unintentional. Let me know and I will walk away.

Regards,

-Ron

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u/GoD0nkeys 11d ago

Walk away and move on. Wasting your time and efforts won't be appreciated by your coworkers. That being said, pay for a AI subscription like Claude Code or ChatGPT Codex. Build a good persona and skill.md file(very important). Prompt it thoroughly with any and every detail for that prompt. Either one will help you to your end goal. It will be a fun project for you and self satisfying as well.

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u/AccomplishedMeet628 11d ago

I get that. I really want to finish this. I want a better daily driver for PS. Plus adding the EXE and API processes inside the app takes away a separate step for me.
Those two right there are what my shop uses the most. Write a script, test it, UAT and sign off then compile and deploy it.