In our book we continue on with only the PowerShell ISE and VSCode. We chose the ISE because it is a built-in tool that is always available with the Windows Management Framework. It is easy to use and readily available. Especially for beginners, the interface is very clean and not as overwhelming as the ISE + ISE Steroids or VSCode for that matter.

As the successor to the ISE, we will concentrate on VSCode for the remainder of the book. Since no additional development effort is flowing into the ISE and VSCode is the successor, we will not concentrate on additional tools. VSCode is available on more operating systems than the ISE, is completely free, and already has a huge amount of extensions that can be used.