

This does not mean nothing updated as you'd see form the verbose output. Update-Help -UICulture en-US -Force -Verbose -ErrorAction Silentl圜ontinue I normally just suppress those errors these days. I've seen this more than I care to over the years. Run as administrator to update the help files, but how do you updateīut again, I read they got that fixed a while back and as noted, I just did this, and it works fine, even without / with su.Īs for some of the errors you are seeing, that is not uncommon to see certain modules not be able to update from time to time. I'm new to PowerShell and I know on PowerShell on windows you need to Update-Help -UICulture en-US -Force -Verboseīack in 2016, Update-Help failed for non-Windows clients. I have seen Update-Help fail even on Windows, if you are not running the VSCode / PowerShell session as admin, or if you are using a non-English OS SKU.

If you are try setting the culture to US English. This gets you the direct link, which (caution) may change/break with different versions and releases, so you might have to get the new link a couple of times.Like you I don't spend much time on OSX, but I just did Update-Help on a default OSX install, latest version without use su and it updated just fine.Īre you using a different language on your MAC. Then you can copy the link address to the direct download: In the Network traffic, you should see one request for the vs_Professional.exe page. Go to the "download" page that you have above. To get the "real" link, start your web browser, open up the Developer Tools ( F12).

the website doesn't change, and all real links are all stored in a database somewhere). The code displays the page, then the page kicks off a piece of javascript that makes the actual request to the "real" link (i.e. When you go to the "Download" page that you mentioned: The issue is that it's not a direct link to the "actual" installer. I was wondering how I can get this to download the correct.

If you go to the link, a file gets automatically downloaded (the correct file), but the cmdlet gives the wrong file. $vsOptions = -FilePath $filePath -ArgumentList $vsOptionsįor some reason, Invoke-WebRequest isn't downloading the file it is supposed to be. $optionsIncludeRecommended = "-includeRecommended" $optionsAddLayout = ::Join(" ", $workloadArgument ) This is because the default integrated shell on Windows is the base PowerShell from your OS, and PowerShell 7 is a separate install. #Invoke-WebRequest -URI $url -OutFile $filePath When you relaunch VS Code, however, you’ll still be using whatever PowerShell you had prior. $filePath = "C:\dev\pub\vs\vs_professional.exe" New-Item -Path 'C:\dev\pub\vs' -ItemType Directory -force It is supposed to download visual studio via a powershell script $url = ""
