I'm experiencing a strange behavior from the integrated visual studio code console. The text is not well-formatted and the cursor is not well-positioned:
Software versions:
Windows 10 Pro;
Visual studio Code 1.55.2;
I already tried:
Close the visual studio code and open again;
closing all instances of integrated terminals and opened them again;
Use cmd instead of powershell.
After some tests, I finally found out the PowerShell was selected as the default terminal profile. After changing it to Command Prompt, the feel and look were back to normal.
Follow the steps to change the default terminal profile:
Open the select box on the top corner of the terminal;
Choose the options "Select Default Profile";
Then select Command Prompt.
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When I right click on a folder in the path bar and select the Open in Terminal option a VS Code window pops up instead of the classical terminal window. If I delete VS Code then the action is performed correctly and the terminal opens up. How do I disable this extremely annoying feature of VS Code?
My mac runs Ventura 13.1 and VS Code version is 1.74.3
I recently upgraded to Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2019.
Prior to the upgrade, Visual Studio 2017 would always run as Administrator. I did not think much of this, but now that it is gone it is causing me problems.
The primary one is that it will not load my projects that use my local instance of IIS.
I usually launch Visual Studio from my start bar. Right now this goes like this:
Right click on the icon on the start bar and select my solution.
It loads and then I realize that the main project did not load.
Close visual studio, open as admin
Pick my solution and then it loads.
I would really like to only have to do #1 above. Is there someway I can edit the shortcut on the start bar to have it always launch as Administrator?
Turns out that Visual Studio uses different permissions when you click on the list of shortcut options it offers in the start menu. (IE to load a recent solution directly.)
Selecting the Properties->Advanced->"Run as Administrator" did not cause these to run as administrator.
But this did it:
Find devenv.exe (Visual Studio's executable)
Right Click on it and select "Troubleshoot Compatibility".
On the Program Compatibility Troubleshooter window, click on Troubleshoot Program
Check that the program requires additional permissions and click Next
On the next window, click on Test the program… and VS will open as administrator
Click next and then click on Yes, save these settings for this program
Now Visual Studio will ALWAYS run as administrator.
(Taken from: https://ppolyzos.com/2017/08/08/always-run-visual-studio-as-administrator/)
This question is specifically for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and it's integrated terminal.
Is it possible to open another integrated terminal to run certain commands from npm scripts or from within one terminal?
For example: if the command "Start cmd" is executed, it opens a new separate window. But, is it possible to force that command to open and run inside another integrated terminal within VS Code?
Note:
There are keyboard shortcuts avaiable to open, close, show, hide etc, but this question is asking about performing these actions from code or command not using keyboard shortcut.
Visual Studio code has nice keyboard shortcuts for opening new integrated terminal instances:
For Windows:
Ctrl+Shift+`
For Macintosh
Ctrl+Shift+~
For more information on shortcuts take a look here for Windows and here for Macintosh. At least this way you can run any command you want in multiple instances. For example, run your server in one integrated window, and other one off commands in another instance, etc...
Hopefully that helps!
Anyone know why you cannot use Greenshot in Visual Studio? I hit the Screen Print button and it does not bring up the cross-hairs to drag my window size. Instead it just takes a plain windows screenshot. I looked for keyboard commands that might override it but didnt see anything at first glance. It works for every other program but not when Visual Studio is the active window.
It's because your visual studio is running in a higher level (permission wise) than your greenshot instance.
for a one time test, close Greenshot, and run it as administrator (right click on the file, run as administrator).
As a more permanent solution, you can just set the compatibility mode for the file to be run in admin mode, and then when it's started on start up it should capture your VS instances as well :).
Edit:
Just in case, you can easily figure out if anything else is wired to a shortcut by doing the following:
I'd like to have a tool window in Visual Studio that allows me to type command line things (e.g. git stash, npm install, etc.) in the current project's working directory. Something like this in Eclipse.
I can't find any such option in any of the menus, but admittedly they're labyrinthine. I tried looking through the Visual Studio gallery, but no dice either. Any extension or hidden option that would give me this?
PowerShell would probably also work, as from what I understand that's a superset of the regular shell.
In Visual Studio 11, the NuGet Package Manager Console is a fully featured PowerShell console. You can do all kinds of things there, including file system operations, git/hg/svn/tfs commands, etc.
You also can customize the experience with a special PowerShell profile called NuGet_profile.ps1.
Installing the NuGet VSIX from the Visual Studio gallery will get you a similar experience in VS2010 if I'm not mistaken.
For anyone that comes across this in 2018+, there is now also the Whack Whack Terminal extension from Microsoft's Daniel Griffen (#dgriffen on GitHub), which gives you exactly what you were looking for.
Whack Whack Terminal is a terminal emulator for Visual Studio 2017. Unlike other terminals for VS, Whack Whack Terminal is fully interactive. Users can launch interactive git commits, vim, or almost any other command line utility.
The default terminal is powershell and it can be opened with the shortcut chord "Ctrl+\, Ctrl+\".
CMD and WSLBash are also available terminal choices.
It's also open source! You can find the source code at Microsoft/WhackWhackTerminal on GitHub.
There is a command window in Visual Studio (CTRL + ALT + A) or (View -> OtherWindows -> Command Window)
You can then use the shell command to run external executables
The syntax is:
shell [/command] [/output] [/dir:folder] path [args]
You can download PowerConsole from the Visual Studio extensions gallery.