Run a solution from Visual Studio console without opening the IDE
command-line, console, devenv, msbuild, visual-studio-2010
Solution
- Navigate to your solution folder
- Run: msbuild myproject.sln /p:Configuration=Release (or Debug)
- cd myproject (within your solution folder - it's a sub-folder)
- cd bin
- cd Release (or Debug)
- Run: myproject.exe
You can replace the three separate `cd` commands with a single one:
cd myproject\bin\Release
Or simply run your executable from the solution folder:
myproject\bin\Release\myproject.exe
Problem
I am using Visual Studio 2010 SP1. What I first tried was this: - Open the Visual Studio console tool from start menu - Navigate to project folder (which already contains an executable) - Run: `msbuild myproject.sln or msbuild myproject.sln /p:Configuration=Release` - This builds successfully, but I can't find an executable to run - The second thing I tried was steps 1 and 2 from above - Running: `devenv myproject.sln /Build and devenv myproject.sln /Run` - This somewhat works but it seems to open the IDE to run the build - The whole point was to avoid using the ide at all. Now, how do I build and run a solution without opening the IDE? --------------------------FIXED------------------------------ The problem was that I was looking in the wrong place for the executable (noob mistake). I ended up using this batch file: ``` msbuild myproj.sln /p:configuration=Release cd (("Path to executable" usually in the Debug/Release Folder)) myExecutableName cd (("Path to original folder")) ```