Open the terminal in visual studio

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

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To open the terminal   Use the Ctrl  keyboard shortcut with the backtick character  This command works for both Linux and macOS  Use the View  gt  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

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New in the most recent version of Visual Studio  there is View -- gt  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

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View -  debug console  Ctrl Shift Y  next to debug console is terminal

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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

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Right click on your solution and above properties is the option open Command Line which gives access to default cmd  powershell and developer command prompt alternatively you can use the shortcuts Alt Space for Default  cmd   Shift Alt   for Dev  cmd   Shift Alt   for powershell

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

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You can have a integrated terminal inside Visual Studio using one of these extensions   Whack Whack Terminal  Terminal  cmd or powershell  Shortcut  Ctrl   Ctrl   Supports  Visual Studio 2017  https   marketplace visualstudio com items itemName DanielGriffen WhackWhackTerminal      BuiltinCmd  Terminal  cmd or powershell  Shortcut  CtrlShiftT  Supports  Visual Studio 2013  2015  2017  2019  https   marketplace visualstudio com items itemName lkytal BuiltinCmd

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Microsoft just included an integrated Windows Terminal in Visual Studio version 16 3 Preview 3  Go to Tools   Options   Preview Features  enable the Experimental VS Terminal option and restart Visual Studio   https   devblogs microsoft com visualstudio say-hello-to-the-new-visual-studio-terminal

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Visual Studio 2019 update  Now vs has built-in terminal   View  gt  Terminal  Ctrl  quot    To change default terminal  Tools  gt  Options - Terminal  gt  Set As Default    Before Visual Studio 2019 From comments best answer is from  Hans Passant  Add an external tool    Tools  gt  External Tools  gt  Add   Title  Terminal  or name it yourself    Command cmd exe Or Command powershell exe   Arguments   k   Initial Directory   ProjectDir    Tools  gt  Terminal  or whatever you put in title   Enjoy

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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

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In Visual Studio 2019  You can open Command PowerShell window from Tools  gt  Command Line  gt   If you want an integrated terminal  try BuiltinCmd  https   marketplace visualstudio com items itemName lkytal BuiltinCmd  You can also try WhackWhackTerminal  does not support VS 2019 by this date   https   marketplace visualstudio com items itemName dos-cafe WhackWhackTerminal

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For Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2017 use Ctrl Alt A  Alternatively from command panel view -  Other Windows -  Command Window

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