command prompt IN visual studio .NET

[Shuo Xiang]

Greetings:

After using it at my place of work, I have found that Visual Studio is
indeed very convenient -- I can open all sorts of documents and even
browse the net without ever leaving the IDE. But I would just like to
know if I could push it a little further:

could I have the command prompt (cmd) show up as one of the files
being displayed in Visual Studio under its own tab within my current
project, or do I HAVE to open up a separate window just for the
command prompt.

The reason for this is that I write programs that performs I/O on
stdin and stdout (scanf, printf, etc), switching between apps on my
computer at work is kind of slow, and having all those command prompt
windows open clutters up my taskbar.

Regards,

Shuo Xiang

[Rick Rothstein]

Almost everybody in this newsgroup is using VB6 or lower. While you may get
a stray answer to VB.NET questions here, you should ask them in newsgroups
devoted exclusively to .NET programming. Look for newsgroups with either the
word "dotnet" or "vsnet" in their name.

For the microsoft news server, try these newsgroups...

microsoft.public.dotnet.general
microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb
microsoft.public.vsnet.general

For the news.devx.com news server, try these

vb.dotnet.discussion
vb.dotnet.technical

There are some others, but these should get you started.

Rick - MVP


"Shuo Xiang" <sx****@student.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote in message
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Greetings:

After using it at my place of work, I have found that Visual Studio is
indeed very convenient -- I can open all sorts of documents and even
browse the net without ever leaving the IDE. But I would just like to
know if I could push it a little further:

could I have the command prompt (cmd) show up as one of the files
being displayed in Visual Studio under its own tab within my current
project, or do I HAVE to open up a separate window just for the
command prompt.

The reason for this is that I write programs that performs I/O on
stdin and stdout (scanf, printf, etc), switching between apps on my
computer at work is kind of slow, and having all those command prompt
windows open clutters up my taskbar.

Regards,

Shuo Xiang