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.

Console 2.0 was created by Marko Bozikovic. OK, it isn't a .NET Framework development tool, but I love it. Console is everything that the Windows or Visual Studio Command Prompt should be. Thanks to ...