Open the terminal in visual studio?

Question

How to open terminal for executing shell commands in Visual Studio(Community Version)?

Answer 1

As tricky solution you can use Package Manager Console to execute cmd or PowerShell commends

Shortcut for Package Manager Console Alt T N O

Tested on Visual Studio 2017 Community Version

Also its available now as part of Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 3

Shortcut Ctrl+` same as Visual Studio Code

Answer 2

Not sure if this will help, but I usually pull the command prompt up by going into "Synchronization" tab in Team Explorer and clicking on "Actions"

When the command prompt opens it is in the directory of the project.

Answer 3

To open the terminal:

• Use the Ctrl` keyboard shortcut with the backtick character. This command works for both Linux and macOS.
• Use the View > Terminal menu command.
• From the Command Palette (⇧⌘P), use the View: Toggle Integrated Terminal command.

Please find more about integrated terminal here https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/integrated-terminal

Answer 4

New in the most recent version of Visual Studio, there is View --> Terminal, which will open a PowerShell instance as a VS dockable window, rather than a floating PowerShell or cmd instance from the Developer Command Prompt.

Answer 5

In Visual Studio 2019- Tools > Command Line > Developer Command Prompt.enter image description here

Answer 6

For Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017 use Ctrl+Alt+A

Alternatively from command panel view -> Other Windows -> Command Window