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How to get terminal window inside Visual Studio 2017 / 2019?

I was just reading this article - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/visual-studio-2019-net-productivity-2/ and noticed in one of the GIF image, she is showing a terminal window inside VS editor itself. It looks like a fully fledged powershell window. How can we get that? Here is a screenshot.

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Varun Sharma Avatar asked Apr 03 '19 02:04

Varun Sharma


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How can we get that?

The Terminal Window in the video seems to comes from a VS extension Whack Whack Terminal. You can download and install it in your vs2017.

(Note:For vs2017, it should be higher versions than 15.6+)

For more details(usage and settings) please check Adding a terminal window to Visual Studio 2017 or A proper terminal for Visual Studio

Update:

1.After install the extension, ctrl+\ twice, then the terminal window will show at the bottom of vs window. And we can change the layout by draging the window like below:

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2.Hope it's what you want. Also we can Go Tools=>Options=>keyboard to change the shortcut setting of this window:

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Update:

VS 2019 16.3+ added the terminal window as a preview feature. Thanks for the info from Farhad and Platinums! Related info see here.

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LoLance Avatar answered Oct 27 '22 23:10

LoLance