PowerShell Version on Package Manager Console

Question

Hello guys I am new at this so please bear with me, I have just installed Visual Studio 2015 on my windows 10 pro machine.

Am having problems with the version of PowerShell. It wants me to use version 3.0 or above but I cant seem to upgrade the Package Manager Console to the latest version.

I do have PowerShell Version 5 installed but somehow the Package Manager Console is refusing to use it. I have done a full uninstall and re-install be hasn’t sort the problem. Can you help please

I Am currently working on this tutorial

when i run this code

[Scaffold-DbContext " 'Server=(localdb)\mssqllocaldb;Database=Blogging;Trusted_Connection=True; '" Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer -OutputDir Models]

It errors, saying Powershell 3.0 or above is required:

[The Entity Framework Core Package Manager Console Tools don't support PowerShell version 2.0. Upgrade to PowerShell version 3.0 or higher, restart Visual Studio, and try again.]

I run $PSVersionTable it returns

Name                           Value                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
----                           -----                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
PSVersion  ----------------------------2.0                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
PSCompatibleVersions -----------{1.0, 2.0}                                                                                                                                                                                                               
BuildVersion -------------------------6.1.7600.16385                                                                                                                                                                                                           
CLRVersion ------------------------- 4.0.30319.42000                                                                                                                                                                                                          
WSManStackVersion --------------2.0                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
PSRemotingProtocolVersion-----2.1                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
SerializationVersion----------------1.1.0.1

Thanks

At what point are you experiencing the probme (ie how can I try to recreate it?) Also, are you receiving any error messages? You should add any of these details to your question — Bassie
– Bassie, Commented Jan 5, 2017 at 10:51
Is the above version output when you run $PSVersionTable in the nuget console window? If you run that in a normal PowerShell window does it say you have version 5 installed? — Bassie
– Bassie, Commented Jan 5, 2017 at 11:39
Yes it returns PSVersion : 5.1.14393.576 when $PSVersionTable is ran on a normal PowerSheel window — kayboy247
– kayboy247, Commented Jan 5, 2017 at 11:55
You could try re-install NuGet, or uninstall PowerShell tools for VS if you have that and see if it helps — Bassie
– Bassie, Commented Jan 5, 2017 at 12:42

russ from E2W · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-23 13:00:32Z

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Since you upgraded powershell just reboot your windows machine so that registry updates may be applied, then check if it does not work or you did already then i suspect it requires a older version of powershell that is known to work ok with that version of visual studio, so then you could use a newer version of VS say 2017.

answered Jun 23, 2017 at 13:00

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