The term 'New-Guid' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function

[nsleigh]

OS: Windows 7
PowerShell version: 4.0
$pseditor.EditorServicesVersion: 1.8

On upgrading version 1.8 I am seeing this error: PowerShell Editor Services The term 'New-Guid' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function.

It looks like Start-EditorServices.ps1 is making use of the New-Guid function that was introduced in PS v5.

Workaround: edit Start-EditorServices.ps1 line 175 and change it to:
$PipeName = "PSES_$([guid]::newguid())"

[andrewducker]

Cheers for the workaround, same issue here.

[andrewducker]

Although even when I do that, if I then try to save a file, it displays "Formatting PowerShell document..." at the bottom of the screen, and then "The PowerShell session has terminated due to an error, would you like to restart it?"

(This happens every time.)

[rkeithhill]

Can you zip and attach the log files? For instructions, see https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell#2-capture-verbose-logs-and-send-them-to-us Thanks!

[andrewducker]

SaveCrash.zip

[andrewducker]

This is probably a different bug to the one this issue was created for. That one doesn't actually start the editor services up, because of the failure to create a named pipe, because new-guid doesn't exist.

Should I create a separate issue for this?

[rkeithhill]

Can you submit this issue to https://github.com/powershell/powershelleditorservices . Title it something like "PSES crash in HandleDocumentRangeFormattingRequest" and attach the zip to that issue. Thanks!

[rkeithhill]

As a work-around, try disabling code analysis with the user setting:

 "powershell.scriptAnalysis.enable": false,

I think that should disable the formatting but unfortunately it also disables analysis.

[rjmholt]

I've opened a PR for the New-Guid issue:
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#699

[andrewducker]

Done:
PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#700

[rkeithhill]

@andrewducker Thanks!! Closing the original issue in favor of PowerShell/PowerShellEditorServices#699