Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt for PowerShell

This PowerShell module allows you to configure your PowerShell session as a Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt by loading the environment variables from the VsDevCmd.bat batch file for a specified Visual Studio version.

Installation

NOTE: posh-vsdev requires PowerShell 5.0 or higher.

Inspect

PS> Save-Module -Name posh-vsdev

Install

PS> Install-Module -Name posh-vsdev -Scope CurrentUser

Usage

# Import the posh-vsdev module module
Import-Module posh-vsdev

# Get all installed Visual Studio instances
Get-VisualStudioVersion

# Get a specific version
Get-VisualStudioVersion -Version 14

# Use the Developer Command Prompt Environment
Use-VisualStudioEnvironment

# Restore the non-Developer environment
Reset-VisualStudioEnvironment

# Reset cache of Visual Studio instances
Reset-VisualStudioVersionCache

# Add posh-vsdev to your PowerShell profile
Add-VisualStudioEnvironmentToProfile -UseEnvironment