Powershell inside Visual Studio

visual-studio-2008 powershell extensibility
Daniel Elliott picture Daniel Elliott · Sep 29, 2009 · Viewed 27.9k times · Source

Does anyone know of a way I can run a powershell within Visual Studio.

By that I mean, have an interactive powershell prompt in a tool window?

Kindness,

Dan

Answer

knut picture knut · Jul 6, 2011

The NuGet Package Manager has a NuGet Package Manager Console which is a PowerShell host. Open the console by clicking Tools > Library Package Manager > Package Manager Console.

The package manager is automatically installed in Visual Studio 2010 when you install ASP.NET MVC 3. You can install ASP.NET MVC 3 using the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. You can also install NuGet by using the Visual Studio Extension Manager.

Quoted from the ASP.NET web site:

ASP.NET MVC 3 automatically installs and enables NuGet as part of its setup. NuGet is a free open-source package manager that makes it easy to find, install, and use .NET libraries and tools in your projects. —http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc3#overview

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