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 window inside VS editor itself. It looks like a fully fledged powershell window. How can we get that? Here is a screenshot.

Walter

Hi, I just update my answer, any update ? Or maybe I misunderstand your meaning. If so, please feel free to correct me :( – Penang

In addition, you can find source code in Microsoft/WhackWhackTerminal. – Penang

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.

Penang

I just added Whack Whack Terminal to VS.NET 2019 Community 16.0.1 and it works just fine. – Assemblyman

Yes,it works for vs2017 and vs2019 now. And for vs2017, it should be 15.6+. – Penang

Perfectly worked for me, just VS 2019 16.3+ added the terminal window as a preview feature. devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/… – Dicast

Some more details about the VS 2019 16.3+ terminal window: devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/… – Dicast

Answer 2

This is now a native feature in the latest Preview Version (Preview 3)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/say-hello-to-the-new-visual-studio-terminal/

Toowoomba

Answer 3

It is now available in VS 2019 version 16.6: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/the-powershell-you-know-and-love-now-with-a-side-of-visual-studio/

However, I still prefer Whack Whack since you can't seem to change the font size.

Andino