posh-vs

Makes Visual Studio command line tools available in PowerShell. Supports Visual Studio 2015 and later versions.

Usage

Install posh-vs from the PowerShell Gallery:

PS> Install-Module posh-vs -Scope CurrentUser

Change your PowerShell profile to automatically import Visual Studio developer environment.

PS> Install-PoshVs

Start a new PowerShell session or reload your profile:

PS> . $profile

Use Visual Studio command line tools in PowerShell:

PS> msbuild /?

How it works

Install-PoshVs adds an Import-VisualStudioEnvironment call to the PowerShell profile. It will import the environment variables set by the VsDevCmd.bat of the latest version of Visual Studio installed on your computer. If multiple instances of Visual Studio are installed, Import-VisualStudioEnvironment will use whichever instance happens to be listed first.

To use a specific instance of Visual Studio, manually change your profile to import a specific batch file.

Import-BatchEnvironment 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat'

Uninstall

Remove posh-vs from your PowerShell profile.

PS> Uninstall-PoshVs
PS> exit

Uninstall posh-vs from your computer.

PS> Uninstall-Module posh-vs

Develop

Install pre-requisites.

PS> .\init.ps1

Ctrl+Shift+B to build and test in VSCode or

PS> Invoke-psake

F5 to debug tests in VSCode.

Credits

posh-vs was inspired by Alen Mack, StackOverflow contributors and posh-git.