Code – WiredPrairie /blog Yet another tech blog. Fri, 11 Nov 2016 19:22:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 193486638 Customize the External VS Code Console /blog/index.php/archives/2070 Fri, 11 Nov 2016 13:35:16 +0000 /blog/?p=2070 I have Visual Studio 2015 installed and when I launch a command prompt on Windows, it’s generally the Visual Studio 2015 Developer Command prompt (in fact, I have it pinned to my Windows 10 task bar).

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On Windows, using Visual Studio Code 1.7+, pressing SHIFT+CTRL+C opens a Windows Command prompt from the root directory of your opened folder. It’s super useful.

I wanted the Developer Command prompt to open instead of a standard command prompt.

To change that, open the User Settings:

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Add the following:

"terminal.external.windowsExec": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\\Tools\\VsDevCmd.bat"

Of course, you can use other batch or command files to customize the prompt. I just wanted all of the standard developer tools I have installed to be available.

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