In this PowerShell tutorial, We will discuss the solution of a PowerShell error as “Missing an argument for parameter ‘Year’. Specify a parameter of type ‘System.Int32’ and try again.” which is appearing in the Visual Studio Code.
Missing an argument for parameter ‘Year’. Specify a parameter of type ‘System.Int32’
As per my requirement, I was trying to get the current Year from a specific date using the Visual Studio Code. To retrieve the current year from date, I have put the below visual studio code as:
Write-Host (Get-Date -Year)
While I was running this above Visual Studio Code to get the current year from date, then an error was occurring as:
“Missing an argument for parameter ‘Year’. Specify a parameter of type ‘System.Int32’ and try again.”
The above error, you can see in the below screenshot.

When I searched the solution for this error, then I got something simple code as in the below screenshot. Just put this below Visual Studio Code and Run with the PowerShell ISE.
((Get-Date).year)
Once you will run the PowerShell in Visual Studio Code, then you can see the current year in the Terminal section as shown below.

Hence in this PowerShell tutorial, We resolved the issue of a PowerShell error as “Missing an argument for parameter ‘Year’. Specify a parameter of type ‘System.Int32’ and try again.” which is appearing in the Visual Studio Code.
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