Package Manager Console freezes Visual Studio 2015 with custom profile

[david-grogan]

I have customised NuGet_profile.ps1 to add some extra info to my command line, but since upgrading to VS 2015 it freezes the entire IDE every time I open the Package Manager Console. The console window displays 'Initializing PowerShell host...', and the console itself will have displayed anything output from my script up until it first freezes.

I've trimmed my script down to the simplest script possible to cause the freeze, which is this:

function global:prompt {
Write-Host $pwd
return "> "
}

The Write-Host seems to be causing the problem. There's no problem calling Write-Host generally, just from inside the prompt function.

I have a similar profile script for my Azure PowerShell, and that still works fine.

Thanks,
David

[emgarten]

We'll take a look at fixing this for a future release.

[yooakim]

I also experience that the entire IDE freezes when I try to open the Package Manager Console. I've started a brand new project and when I open the package Manager Console the IDE freezes and all I see is Initializing PowerShell host...

Only way to come out of this is to kill VS using TaskManager

[thargy]

+1 for this

[liammoat]

+1 for this

[mgolus]

+1 for this

[ghaefele]

+1 for this

[mmoore99]

+1 for this

[yishaigalatzer]

This is a duplicate of #917

Here is a workaround @zbrad posted on #917

I finally tracked down a workaround that is working for me, by testing the value of $profile in my profile.ps1, eg:
if (!$profile.Contains("NuGet_profile")) {

normal start

. $PSScriptRoot\prompt.ps1
}