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VSCmdShell

Written by: James Avery at 3/1/2008 9:58:27 PM

Overview

Do you like the Command Window? Do you like the Command Prompt? Then there is a powertoy just for you. The VSCmdShell powertoy combines the command window and the command prompt and makes them available in a single window.  

After downloading and installing the powertoy you may have to enable it in the Add-in Manager. (For some reason it may appear as “System Window 2”.)

Following is a look at the powertoy in action:


As you can see you now have access to the command prompt directly inside of Visual Studio, just about anything you can do in the command prompt you can now do right inside of the IDE. You can also execute Visual Studio commands in the same window by simply prefacing that command with an exclamation point, you will even get IntelliSense for the command list as shown here:

(Commands are an easy way to do something without reaching for the mouse, for a list of commands refer to Options -> Environment -> Keyboard)

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