To use MSVC from a command line or VS Code, you must run from a Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio. An ordinary shell such as PowerShell, Bash, or the Windows command prompt does not have the necessary path environment variables set.

Aug 26, 2024 · Visual Studio includes two command-line shells for developers, a command prompt and an instance of PowerShell, as follows: Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt - A standard command prompt with certain environment variables set to make using command-line developer tools easier.

Feb 14, 2025 · Configure your terminal to work like a Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt. Select the default developer environment from one of your Visual Studio installations, or pick a specific toolset and architecture.

Mar 5, 2020 · Configure the shell that VS Code uses to be like the Developer Command Prompt by default. Unfortunately, I have no clue where to even start with this.

Dec 4, 2022 · The default way recommended by Microsoft to get VS Code to use the cl compiler is to call VS Code from the Developer Command prompt. I would like to do it differently, with a terminal that I can call from VS Code and make it the default terminal if needed.

Jun 12, 2021 · How to add a Developer Command Prompt to VS Code Using Windows developer CLI tools outside of Visual Studio is way more of a pain than it needs to be. Here's how to set up the VS Developer Command Prompt in VS Code's integrated terminal.

Jun 16, 2023 · Basically, what you are seeing there, is a cmd with integrated development tools. So, so you can understand better, it is like a different terminal that has to be added to vscode so it can run it. Going deepier, that "cmd" in the photo has tools to work with C++ compilling, like CMake, vcpkg, msbuild, nmake...

Dec 17, 2018 · To start Visual-Studio-Code from CMD into the current folder write: The environment variable cd tell VS-Code to open it with the current folder. just open a cmd terminal and type code followed by return keyborad key. Well shoot, as it turns out that after doing some experimentation I found out that there's a way. Do this:

Select a profile. You can launch VS Code with a specific profile via the --profile command-line interface option. You pass the name of the profile after the --profile argument and open a folder or a workspace using that profile. The command line below opens the web-sample folder with the "Web Development" profile:. code ~/projects/web-sample --profile "Web Development"

Nov 6, 2019 · Look at the shortcut in the start menu for visual studio (full) for developer command prompt and add a custom terminal that executed the same on start up. Alternatively add your msbuild or whatever compiler to the path for your system. There may also be an extension that does this for you.