How do you use the Immediate Window in Visual Studio?

Question

The Immediate Window is an immensely useful tool for debugging applications. It can be used to execute code statements that are valid in the context of a break point and ins

Answer 1

Use the Immediate Window to Execute Commands

The Immediate Window can also be used to execute commands. Just type a > followed by the command.

For example >shell cmd will start a command shell (this can be useful to check what environment variables were passed to Visual Studio, for example). >cls will clear the screen.

Here is a list of commands that are so commonly used that they have their own aliases: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c3a0kd3x.aspx