Open Command Line

Mads Kristensen

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

Supported consoles

The Open Command Line extension supports all types of consoles like cmd, PowerShell, Bash and more. You can easily configure which to use by setting the paths and arguments in the Options.

Open Command Line

How it works

This extension adds a new command to the project context menu that will open a command prompt on the project's path. If the solution node is selection in Solution Explorer, then a console will open at the root of the .sln file.

Open Command Line

You can access the command by hitting ALT+Space as well.

You may change this shortcut in the Options Window under Environment -> Keyboard

Look for the command ProjectAndSolutionContextMenus.Project.OpenCommandLine.Default

Execute batch file

You can easily execute any .cmd or .bat file. For files in your solution, a context-menu button shows up.

Execute batch file

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.