- VSCode Version: Code 1.3.0 (e724f269ded347b49fcf1657fc576399354e6703, 2016-07-07T16:56:12.476Z) - OS Version: Windows_NT ia32 10.0.14372 Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a new tab 2. Change the language mode to PowerShell 3. Paste in this text: Write-Host -Object 'Looks good'; $xml = [xml]'<root><dash-it-all>text</dash-it-all></root>'; $xml.root.'dash-it-all'; Write-Host -Object 'Looks bad' Expected: Syntax parsing continues to work Actual: Most things are now being treated as a string after the $x.'something-something' line This impacts any referencing of properties where you need to use quotes which is pretty common for XML or JSON references.