Powershell inside Visual Studio

Question

Does anyone know of a way I can run a powershell within Visual Studio.

By that I mean, have an interactive powershell prompt in a tool window?

Kindness,

Dan

Frere

I'm veeeeeeeery curious to see if someone's able to get a PowerShell prompt running inside VS2010, AND to see what VS-specific objects it has available to it. – Buonaparte

Answer 1

The NuGet Package Manager has a NuGet Package Manager Console which is a PowerShell host. Open the console by clicking Tools > Library Package Manager > Package Manager Console.

The package manager is automatically installed in Visual Studio 2010 when you install ASP.NET MVC 3. You can install ASP.NET MVC 3 using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. You can also install NuGet by using the Visual Studio Extension Manager.

Quoted from the ASP.NET web site:

ASP.NET MVC 3 automatically installs and enables NuGet as part of its setup. NuGet is a free open-source package manager that makes it easy to find, install, and use .NET libraries and tools in your projects. —http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc3#overview

Closegrained

"This package manager is installed by default in Visual Studio 2010." - Is this really true? – Barbarbarbara

I think so, I was trying to figure it out, but was unable to find any documentation. I'm speaking out of my own experience. I hope to confirm this. – Closegrained

I thought I had to install NuGet after installing Visual Studio 2010. If I am wrong, please, forgive me for the false alarm. – Barbarbarbara

Followup note: this IS a powershell window, but it will not load any of your personal profile scripts from the look of it...just garden-variety powershell – Aorangi

Answer 2

There are two very interesting project available:

• A powershell command shell called Power Console: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/67620d8c-93dd-4e57-aa86-c9404acbd7b3

• The integration of the PowerGui script editor (the best!) into Visual Studio: http://powerguivsx.codeplex.com/

Check them out, together they will fulfill all you needs:-)

Gal

Forget Power Console, the new kid on the block is NuGet (nuget.codeplex.com) which has the Power Console integrated. – Gal

Actually these plugins work only for visual studio 2010 and up, while the question is clearly tagged with visual-studio-2008. – Czech

Answer 3

Check Out PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio. It adds language support for PowerShell in Visual Studio 2012 and 2013.

Promise

Answer 4

Navigate to View -> Terminal.

Telegenic

Answer 5

I use the nuget package manager console as it's already installed in my IDE as part of nuget.

If you use a profile to set up your session environment, be aware that the Nuget profile script name is "NuGet_profile.ps1" located default in $Home\documents\WindowsPowerShell

One thing to be aware of when using PS in Visual Studio: VS is (currently) a 32 bit application and as such you will not be able to load or invoke the functionality of any 64 bit PS Modules - for instance the SqlServerManagementModules

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