Can I detect in Powershell that I am running in VS Code's integrated terminal?

Question

I would like to modify the standard PowerShell profile in Windows if the Powershell opens inside VS Code integrated terminal (when you are editing e.g. python scripts in VS Code, rather than PS scripts, which opens the ISE profile in any case).

Is there some environmental variable that gets set by the integrated PowerShell? Or is there some way of opening Powershell with a particular profile, instead of the default?

Thanks

Answer 1

VS Code creates an environment variable named TERM_PROGRAM. You can check it for a value of vscode, something like this:

if($env:TERM_PROGRAM -eq 'vscode') {
  # do some stuff...
}