Use PowerShell for Visual Studio Command Prompt

Question

In a serious intiative to migrate all my command line operations to PowerShell, I would like to avoid using the old fashioned command console for anything. However, the Visual

Answer 1

You can use for example this script to import Visual Studio command prompt environment, see the examples in the script documentation comments, e.g. for Visual Studio 2010:

Invoke-Environment '"%VS100COMNTOOLS%\vsvars32.bat"' 

Having done that in the beginning of a PowerShell session (from your profile or manually), you get what you ask for in this PowerShell session.

Or you can use the solution provided by Keith Hill in this answer.