Add Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio to Windows Terminal?

Question

How do I add the Visual Studio Developer's Command Prompt to the list of Windows Terminal consoles?

Wallace Kelly · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-14T20:39:36.523

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Select Settings, which will open a JSON file.

Paste the following to the array of profiles in the JSON, changing 2019 to 2017 and Professional to Community to match your install.

,
{
    "guid" : "{1748ecca-abdd-4aa4-bcc4-9fca0d045be5}",
    "name" : "VS cmd",
    "commandline" : "cmd.exe /k \"%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Professional\\Common7\\Tools\\VsDevCmd.bat\"",
    "icon" : "ms-appx:///ProfileIcons/{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101}.png",
    "hidden": false
}

edited Nov 14 '19 at 20:39

answered Sep 13 '19 at 14:21

Wallace Kelly

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For Community version users, the command line is: "cmd.exe /k \"%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Community\\Common7\\Tools\\LaunchDevCmd.bat\"" – Costin Mar 11 '20 at 09:43
Yeah, and mine was a little different as well - I split app installations across several drives so I can't use the %environment variable% thing and hard code it: D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat – Jester Jun 08 '20 at 21:34
And for VS2019 community x64 version, the command line is: "cmd.exe /k \"%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Community\\VC\\Auxiliary\\Build\\vcvars64.bat\"" – Sam Jun 23 '20 at 13:10
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For enterprise version, use `"cmd.exe /k \"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Enterprise\\Common7\\Tools\\vsdevcmd.bat\""` – user3613932 Jul 07 '20 at 23:41

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 19 '20 at 03:53

The answer from Wallace Kelly is great, but the settings below may be a useful copy/paste for others who want Visual Studio icons, both x86 and x64 and a less DOS-like font.

As with Wallace's answer, adjust "2019" and "Professional", e.g. for 2017/Community, as needed.

{
  "guid": "{9a3a9308-d6f8-4b1d-896c-a27c59c28be3}",
  "name": "VS2019 x86",
  "commandline": "cmd.exe /k cd c:/dev/mc-hardware-svc/out/vs-x86-Debug && \"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvars32.bat\"",
  "fontFace": "Consolas",
  "fontSize": 10,
  "icon" : "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/Common7/IDE/Assets/VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-black_scale-80.png",
  "hidden": false
},
{
  "guid": "{ceec68f2-0ef7-48f0-84db-4693612532cd}",
  "name": "VS2019 x64",
  "commandline": "cmd.exe /k \"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvars64.bat\"",
  "icon" : "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Professional/Common7/IDE/Assets/VisualStudio.70x70.contrast-black_scale-80.png",
  "hidden": false
},

Add Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio to Windows Terminal?

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