On Jan. 17, 2018, Microsoft's Scott Hanselman asked Visual Studio developers if they would like a PowerShell prompt with pre-set PATH and Environment variables baked right into the IDE. They said yes.

With Visual Studio 2019 16.2, the Tools menu now includes items for 'Developer Command Prompt' and 'Developer PowerShell,' the latter of which was requested by more than 1,800 developers in an ...