How to run a .bat from inside the IDE

Question

What I want to do is very simple, yet can\'t find the way to do it.
In my projects I have several .bat files (I know, I\'m old) the perform some tasks like running SqlMe

Answer 1

Check out the Open Command Line Visual Studio extension.

As per the description, it features:

• Opening of a command line at the root of the project.
• Support for all consoles such as CMD, PowerShell, Bash etc.
• Syntax highlighting, Intellisense and execution of .cmd and .bat files.

For files in your solution, a context-menu button shows up.

Alternatively, the keyboard shortcut Shift+Alt+5 can be used when editing a batch file. This makes it really easy and fast to execute any batch file - even ones that are not part of your project.