Opening a command prompt for your project

re: Opening a command prompt for your project

Ethor — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:59:24 GMT

I need to pass text that I have created in a .txt file to the cmd line and run the command, while being hidden from the front end of the project. Any suggestions of how to go about this

Visual Studio 2005 Developments

Ramblings of a Code Monkey — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:10:00 GMT

It looks like I won't have to make my own command prompt plugin for Visual Studio after all - this feature is included in Visual Studio 2005. Sweet! :) (In the meantime, as a quick substitute you can create External...

re: Opening a command prompt for your project

Shawn — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:32:00 GMT

Hi Puchi

What you're looking for is functionality similar to WinDbg's .shell command. Unfortunately there's nothing like that in Visual Studio (at least as far as I know, if anyone has a trick to show how this is done, feel free to post it here). Like you pointed out, adding the "use output window" option only shows the output of the command prompt in the output window, and doesn't let you interact with the prompt. From the VS command window you could run Tools.Shell cmd.exe, but that too will spawn an external command shell.

-Shawn

re: Opening a command prompt for your project

Puchi — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:06:00 GMT

That is pretty interesting. To take it a step further, it would be great if you could get the command window inside the editor. There is an option for that "use output window" but when I execute the tool, the command window comes in read-only mode in the editor and I cannot do much with it. Do you know of any other way in which I can type in commands in the window after getting it in the VS Editor.

Thanks a lot