Detent Point
No. Microsoft’s own documentation says the Windows PowerShell ISE is “no longer in active feature development,” supported “up to and including Windows PowerShell V5.1,” and that “there is no support for the ISE in PowerShell v6 and beyond.” Their own guidance points people at Visual Studio Code instead. (Microsoft Learn: Introducing the Windows PowerShell ISE)
DetentShell is the ISE-style IDE we think should have shipped for PowerShell 7 instead: an independent product, not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft, built to keep the two-pane script-and-console layout and the keyboard muscle memory the ISE trained into a lot of us, running on PowerShell 7 as its primary engine.
F5 to run, F8 for the selection, F9 for a breakpoint, Ctrl+Space for IntelliSense, F1 for help. Script and session tabs, an interactive console, step-through debugging, find and replace, where your hands already expect them.
Still on Windows PowerShell 5.1 for some scripts? DetentShell routes a script to the right engine automatically, or you pin it yourself per tab. 5.1 work and PowerShell 7 work live in the same window.
What actually changed between PowerShell ISE and PowerShell 7 →
The ISE never had these four.
- One-click Pester tests. Right-click a function, generate a real test scaffold, fill the placeholders, watch it go green. Free, built in.
- Live script analysis. PSScriptAnalyzer diagnostics as you type, with Quick Fix to apply the correction in place.
- Isolated sessions. Every tab is its own PowerShell 7 runspace. A runaway script in one tab can’t touch the one next to it.
- Seven themes, four built for low light, every color pair checked for contrast before a build ships.
There’s no download link on this page yet, because there’s no signed installer yet. Every DetentShell build ships signed under Detent Point LLC, and that signing step is the one thing standing between where the app is now (944 automated tests passing, in active daily development) and a release.
Read the full DetentShell overview → · See it compared to the ISE, VS Code, and PowerShell Studio →
PS> Start-Process "https://detentpoint.com/detentshell/download"
# Coming soon — ships once the installer is code-signedComing soon. DetentShell launches at $29.99 in the Microsoft Store for its first two weeks. The regular price that follows is not final yet and will be published here first; volume licensing for teams is handled separately.