Really, how do you suppress PowerShell analyzer rules
The MS docs are here: supressing rules but it really doesn't work as documented when using VS Code. I have the following at the top of my script:
# Supress some analyzer (linter) diagnostics:
[Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute('PSAvoidUsingCmdletAliases','')]
But, the analyzer itself is complaining about that statement, "Unexpected attribute". Looks like this:
And, who wants to see all this red!
Interestingly, when I add a second, similar statement, like this:
# Supress some analyzer (linter) diagnostics:
[Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute('PSProvideCommentHelp','')]
[Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute('PSAvoidUsingCmdletAliases','')]
The first statement is no longer flagged as an error, just the second one is.
But, the bottom line is my attempt to suppress the messages is not working.
I read over the .NET docs here
I even tried adding
Add-Type -Path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\ReferenceAssemblies\v2.0\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.dll'
As suggested in an answer to this question, but that made no difference.
I am on PS Core 7.3.7, on Windows 10 Pro with .NET 7.0.5. And VS Code 1.82.1
I believe your issue is that you're trying to use the decoration outside the context it is supposed to be used in, you need to use it to decorate a param block. See Suppressing Rules.
A simple example, before suppression:
And after:
And, if I remove the param block, I get exactly the same parsing error:
For your specific use case, for suppressing the PSAvoidUsingCmdletAliases rule and following what's stated above, you can use a dummy param() at the top of your script file and it should work properly:
