Visual Studio Command Prompt vs. a regular command prompt?
command-prompt, visual-studio, visual-studio-2008
Solution
It basically just sets several of the Visual Studio binary locations into the `PATH` environment variable for that command window instance. This means you can use all the various commands and tools without having to include the full paths.
There's a partial list of some of the tools available on MSDN in .NET Framework Tools and Tools (.NET Framework).
Problem
When I open a Visual Studio command prompt (for example, opened with menu Start -> Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 -> Visual Studio Tools -> Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt), I get: ``` Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 x86 tools. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE> ``` What kind of tools are available, and what are the most common uses of this command prompt?