Visual Studio immediate window command for Clear All

Is there a command to clear the immediate window in Visual Studio?

I hate having to grab the mouse for a right click menu there - would rather just type "cls" or something.

Solution 1:

To clear the immediate window, you can use >cls, which is a predefined command alias to >Edit.ClearAll.

The MSDN article lists all predefined aliases and you can define your own, too. (For VS 2010 and earlier, custom aliases are described in a separate article, though.) Scanning through, there's a whole slew of them, some of which might even have their roots in MS-DOS DEBUG.EXE (specifically >d, >g, >p, >q, and >t come to mind).

Also worth noting as it's only two keys to press: Context menu > Clear All invokes the same command and it can be navigated using keyboard. Therefore in the immediate window, you can press Context Menu, L.

If you don't have a context-menu key on your keyboard (you know, the one between Right Alt and Right Ctrl), you can use Shift+F10 instead.

Solution 2:

>cls 

seems to do it for me.

Solution 3:

1. Place the mouse cursor in the Immediate Window.
2. Right click on the mouse and select "Clear All".

Solution 4:

found it...

">Edit.ClearAll"

or

">cls"

Solution 5:

Here is how to do it at run time:

1. Reference the EnvDTE dlls in your application.

2. Create and then use this function as necessary.

Public Sub ClearImmediateWindow()
  Try
    Dim vsWindowKindImmediateWindow As String _ 
          = "{ECB7191A-597B-41F5-9843-03A4CF275DDE}"
    Try
      Dim obj As Object = System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal._ 
                          GetActiveObject("VisualStudio.DTE.10.0")
      If obj IsNot Nothing Then
        Dim DTE2 As EnvDTE80.DTE2 = CType(obj, EnvDTE80.DTE2)
        For Each wndw As EnvDTE.Window In DTE2.Windows
          If wndw.ObjectKind = vsWindowKindImmediateWindow Then
            wndw.Activate()
            DTE2.ExecuteCommand("Edit.ClearAll")
            Exit For
          End If
        Next
      End If
    Catch comEx As COMException
      ' Not running from within the VS IDE?
    Catch ex As Exception
      Throw ex
    End Try
  Catch ex As Exception
    ' Handle this as you desire.
  End Try
End Sub
  End Sub