December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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23.6 Opening a Shell Where You Need It with Command Prompt Here
Small things make a big difference, like being able to open a command prompt from an Explorer window via the context menu. It’s even better when you can open a command prompt that has your Visual Studio environment properly configured. What about launching a PowerShell command prompt with the same steps?
Making all this possible involves hacking the registry a bit. Thankfully, Mike Gunderloy and Scott Hanselman, both recognized leaders in the tool-geek category, have created .inf files to handle those registry changes for you. Gunderloy modified the original CMD Prompt Here PowerToy from Microsoft, creating a variant for Visual Studio 2003’s prompt. Hanselman ran with that change, creating first a version for Visual Studio 2005 and then a separate hack for PowerShell.
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Tool | Visual Studio Command Prompt Here (2003 and 2005) PowerShell Command Prompt Here |
Versions covered | None given |
Home page | http://www.hanselman.com/blog/VisualStudioCommandPromptHereAndSearchUnknownFileExtensions.aspx http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingPowerShellPromptHere.aspx |
Power Tools page | |
Summary | Open a command window with all the environment variables set for Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 (or start a PowerShell prompt) just by right-clicking |
License type | Freeware |
Online resources | Author’s ... |
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