PS for your VS – PowerConsole a PowerShell console for VS 2010

Development in a Blink - PowerConsole – PowerShell Integrated with Visual Studio 2010

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• PowerConsole brings the Visual Studio automation object DTE to your finger tips
  • Use PowerShell and the Visual Studio automation system to explore DTE interactively
  • Write simple scripts to automate everyday tasks in Visual Studio
• Directly access Visual Studio services with Get-VSService and Get-Interface
• Interact with Visual Studio MEF with Get-VSComponentModel
• PowerConsole Requires VS 2010 RC.

PowerConsole extensions also exist for IronPython and IronRuby.

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Visual Studio Gallery – PowerConsole

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This extension provides an extensible VS command window with default PowerShell integration. You can now script Visual Studio interactively in PowerShell, and enjoy familiar VS style syntax coloring and tab-completion.

Prerequisite: Visual Studio 2010 RC (or above) + Windows PowerShell v2 (or above). After installation, open the new tool window from View->Other Windows->Power Console.

PowerShell Integration

PowerConsole brings rich PowerShell functionalities into VS. You can access the file system, the registry, and many other PowerShell providers without ever leaving VS. You can also run PowerShell commandlets or launch external programs.

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Nice! As I push to learn and use PowerShell, I want to use it everywhere. Since I live in VS (and will live in VS2010 even more, if that’s possible ;) having PowerShell there just seems so right… :)