How to get terminal window inside Visual Studio 2017 / 2019?

Question

I was just reading this article - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/visual-studio-2019-net-productivity-2/ and noticed in one of the GIF image, she is showing a terminal win

Answer 1

How can we get that?

The Terminal Window in the video seems to comes from a VS extension Whack Whack Terminal. You can download and install it in your vs2017.

(Note:For vs2017, it should be higher versions than 15.6+)

For more details(usage and settings) please check Adding a terminal window to Visual Studio 2017 or A proper terminal for Visual Studio

Update:

1.After install the extension, ctrl+\ twice, then the terminal window will show at the bottom of vs window. And we can change the layout by draging the window like below:

2.Hope it's what you want. Also we can Go Tools=>Options=>keyboard to change the shortcut setting of this window:

Update:

VS 2019 16.3+ added the terminal window as a preview feature. Thanks for the info from Farhad and Platinums! Related info see here.