{"id":3692,"date":"2016-03-11T20:16:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2016-05-25T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T12:48:02","slug":"setup-powershell-to-use-the-visual-studio-paths-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/setup-powershell-to-use-the-visual-studio-paths-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Setup Powershell to use the Visual Studio paths etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

This one’s straight off of How I can use PowerShell with the Visual Studio Command Prompt?<\/a> and it works a treat.<\/p>\n

So I amend the $profile file with the following (updated to include VS 2015)<\/p>\n

\r\nfunction Set-VsCmd\r\n{\r\n    param(\r\n        [parameter(Mandatory=$true, HelpMessage="Enter VS version as 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015")]\r\n        [ValidateSet(2010,2012,2013,2015)]\r\n        [int]$version\r\n    )\r\n    $VS_VERSION = @{ 2010 = "10.0"; 2012 = "11.0"; 2013 = "12.0"; 2015 = "14.0" }\r\n    if($version -eq 2015)\r\n    {\r\n        $targetDir = "c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio $($VS_VERSION[$version])\\Common7\\Tools"\r\n        $vcvars = "VsMSBuildCmd.bat"\r\n    }\r\n    else\r\n    {\r\n        $targetDir = "c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio $($VS_VERSION[$version])\\VC"\r\n        $vcvars = "vcvarsall.bat"\r\n    }\r\n \r\n    if (!(Test-Path (Join-Path $targetDir $vcvars))) {\r\n        "Error: Visual Studio $version not installed"\r\n        return\r\n    }\r\n    pushd $targetDir\r\n    cmd \/c $vcvars + "&set" |\r\n    foreach {\r\n      if ($_ -match "(.*?)=(.*)") {\r\n        Set-Item -force -path "ENV:\\$($matches[1])" -value "$($matches[2])"\r\n      }\r\n    }\r\n    popd\r\n    write-host "`nVisual Studio $version Command Prompt variables set." -ForegroundColor Yellow\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
The previous version (non-VS 2015) is listed below in case it’s still needed<\/p>\n
\r\nfunction Set-VsCmd\r\n{\r\n    param(\r\n        [parameter(Mandatory=$true, HelpMessage="Enter VS version as 2010, 2012, or 2013")]\r\n        [ValidateSet(2010,2012,2013)]\r\n        [int]$version\r\n    )\r\n    $VS_VERSION = @{ 2010 = "10.0"; 2012 = "11.0"; 2013 = "12.0" }\r\n    $targetDir = "c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio $($VS_VERSION[$version])\\VC"\r\n    if (!(Test-Path (Join-Path $targetDir "vcvarsall.bat"))) {\r\n        "Error: Visual Studio $version not installed"\r\n        return\r\n    }\r\n    pushd $targetDir\r\n    cmd \/c "vcvarsall.bat&set" |\r\n    foreach {\r\n      if ($_ -match "(.*?)=(.*)") {\r\n        Set-Item -force -path "ENV:\\$($matches[1])" -value "$($matches[2])"\r\n      }\r\n    }\r\n    popd\r\n    write-host "`nVisual Studio $version Command Prompt variables set." -ForegroundColor Yellow\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
Another user on the same question of stackoverlow also put forward the idea of simply changing the shortcut that Visual Studio supply to add the & powershell, like this<\/p>\n
\r\n%comspec% \/k ""C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\\Common7\\Tools\\VsDevCmd.bat" & powershell"\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This one’s straight off of How I can use PowerShell with the Visual Studio Command Prompt? and it works a treat. So I amend the $profile file with the following (updated to include VS 2015) function Set-VsCmd { param( [parameter(Mandatory=$true, HelpMessage="Enter VS version as 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015")] [ValidateSet(2010,2012,2013,2015)] [int]$version ) $VS_VERSION = @{ 2010 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-powershell","category-visual-studio"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4017,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}