Debug powershell in Visual studio code with parameters from command line - debugging

Question

Using Powershell ISE I often set breakpoints in a script and start the script from command line. ISE then stops at the breakpoint and lets me debug from there. How do I do the same from Terminal in Visual Studio Code? Below is a script just to show you what I mean. Starting from a terminal I would write:
.\hello.ps1 -firstName "firstName" -lastName "theLastName"
But doing that from terminal it just starts a new window.
param(
[string]$firstName,
[string]$lastName
)
Write-Host "Starting test script"
try
{
Write-Host "Hello $firstName $lastName"
}
catch
{
Write-Error "Error. Exception: $_"
}
write-host "Script done"

Answer 1

To make the info from Eickhel Mendoza's link explicit - the solution is to set up a Run and Debug config file. This is created in .vscode/launch.json. The content for this case would be:
{
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"name": "Launch Hello Script",
"type": "PowerShell",
"request": "launch",
"script": "${workspaceFolder}\\hello.ps1",
"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
"args": ["-firstName \"firstName\" -lastName \"theLastName\""]
}
]
}
Then just open the "Run and Debug" sidebar pane on VSCode (the play button with the bug or Ctrl+Shift+D), where you can run your launch script and any breakpoints you set will be hit as expected.

Answer 2

Maybe this might help... it involves modifying the launch.json file in your workspace.
https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/tree/master/examples#passing-arguments-to-the-script