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

I use this script that I call Initialize-VisualStudio.ps1, i call it in my profile with dot source, to set the environment variables need it, in my actual session:

param([switch]$ArquitectureX86)
if($ArquitectureX86)
{ $arq= "x86"}
else
{ $arq="x64"}
pushd 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC'
cmd /c "vcvarsall.bat $arq&set" |
foreach {
  if ($_ -match "=") {
  $v = $_.split("="); set-item -force -path "ENV:\$($v[0])" -value "$($v[1])"; 
}
}
popd