Powershell profile and VS2013

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Powershell profile and VS2013

schleep

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December 19, 2016 at 12:12 pm

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Is there a way to set up Visual Studio 2013 so that my profile.ps1 runs on startup, or do I just have to load the SQLServer modules as needed in each script?

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Gazareth One Orange Chip Points: 27737 More actions · Answer 1

Using the Current User, All hosts profile ($Home\[My ]Documents\profile.ps1) should do it.

Alternatively, if you're using PoShTools that will check for a Current User, Current Host profile file at $Home\[My ]Documents\PoshTools_profile.ps1

schleep SSChampion Points: 12585 More actions · Answer 2

Doesn't appear to be working:

I've copied my profile.ps1 to

$Home\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Poshtools_profile.ps1

and

$Home\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\profile.ps1

but in neither case is it being loaded when I start Visual Studio.

Also tried

$Home\My Documents\... to no avail.

Sue_H SSC Guru Points: 90860 More actions · Answer 3

schleep (12/20/2016)
Doesn't appear to be working:
I've copied my profile.ps1 to
$Home\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Poshtools_profile.ps1
and
$Home\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\profile.ps1
but in neither case is it being loaded when I start Visual Studio.
Also tried
$Home\My Documents\... to no avail.

Try opening powershell and then at the prompt, just type: $Profile

hit enter and it should show you the path to the current Profile.ps1 file.

Sue

schleep SSChampion Points: 12585 More actions · Answer 4

And, Presto! Copying Poshtools_Profile.ps1 files to there did the trick.

Thanks Sue!

Edit: The $Home threw me off since it points to somewhere else entirely.