Is there an interactive shell for Visual Studio?

Today I started working with bower in my project in Visual Studio 2013. When I tried to start bower initfrom the package manager console in VS, I received the following error:

PM> bower init
bower.cmd : bower ENOINT        Register requires an interactive shellIn Zeile:1 
Zeichen:1
+ bower init
+ ~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (bower ENOINT   ...teractive shell:St 
   ring) [], RemoteException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError


Additional error details:
Note that you can manually force an interactive shell with --config.interactive

It seems that the team needs an interactive shell to ask the user about some settings, so I ended up working outside of VS in Powershell (which is actually not very good).

The package manager console seems to provide non-interactive features (in the style of "fire and forget"). I was looking for a plugin for VS that provides an interactive shell but was not successful.

Is there any interactive shell that integrates with Visual Studio, allowing you to run an interactive script like bower initthat without leaving the IDE?

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