I created a flow to make it less tedious for me to get started with an existing project in Visual Studio. It asks which project and branch to open, finds the right .sln file, does a get latest with TFS via a PowerShell script, opens the .sln with Visual Studio, and presses Ctrl+F5 to start without debugging. It works pretty well.
My biggest gripe about it right now is that while the PowerShell script is running for maybe 10-15 seconds, it just looks like there's nothing happening. The script runs, but doesn't open a PowerShell window to show what's going on. I added a message box before the script runs that says what's about to happen and closes automatically after a few seconds, but what I'd really like to happen is for a message box (with some kind of message about what's going on) to open at the same time the PowerShell script starts to run, then closes once the script is done and the flow can continue from there. I'd also prefer it if this message box didn't have any buttons so it can't be dismissed. So far I haven't found a way to do this. Is this possible?

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