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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

have a look at PowerConsole

Answer 4

PowerConsole has been incorporated into NuGet http://nuget.codeplex.com/. You get PowerShell inside Visual Studio and a package management system.

Answer 5

What I do is create a simple cmd batch command script that looks like this:

call "%VS80COMNTOOLS%vsvars32.bat"
powershell

Then I create a shortcut that invokes this through cmd. The shortcut target looks like:

%windir%\System32\cmd.exe /k "SetupPSBuildEnvironment.cmd"

If you want the console to look like the powershell console, just modify the Layout to your liking in the shortcut properties.