Debug powershell in Visual studio code with parameters from command line

Question

Using Powershell ISE I often set breakpoints in a script and start the script from command line. ISE then stops at the breakpoint and lets me debug from there. How do I do the same from Terminal in Visual Studio Code? Below is a script just to show you what I mean. Starting from a terminal I would write:

.\hello.ps1 -firstName "firstName" -lastName "theLastName"

But doing that from terminal it just starts a new window.

param(
[string]$firstName,
[string]$lastName
)

Write-Host "Starting test script"
try
{
   Write-Host "Hello $firstName $lastName"        
}
catch
{
    Write-Error "Error. Exception: $_"
}

write-host "Script done"

Answer 1

To make the info from Eickhel Mendoza's link explicit - the solution is to set up a Run and Debug config file. This is created in .vscode/launch.json. The content for this case would be:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Launch Hello Script",
            "type": "PowerShell",
            "request": "launch",
            "script": "${workspaceFolder}\\hello.ps1",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "args": ["-firstName \"firstName\" -lastName \"theLastName\""]
        }
    ]
}

Then just open the "Run and Debug" sidebar pane on VSCode (the play button with the bug or Ctrl+Shift+D), where you can run your launch script and any breakpoints you set will be hit as expected.