



Popular commandsįollow these steps to open Developer Command Prompt or Developer PowerShell from within Visual Studio:Īfter opening one of these shells, you can enter the commands for different utilities without having to know where they're located. On the menu bar, select Tools > Command Line > Developer Command Prompt or Developer PowerShell.Īnother way to start the shells is from the Start menu. You may have multiple command prompts, depending on the version of Visual Studio and any additional SDKs and workloads you've installed. , and then in the Type here to search dialog box, enter either developer command prompt or developer powershell. Select the App result that's associated with your search text. Select Start, and then scroll to the letter V.Įxpand the Visual Studio 2019 or Visual Studio 2022 folder. If you're running Visual Studio 2019, select either Developer Command Prompt for VS 2019 or Developer PowerShell for VS 2019.
