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vishiy@gmail.com - 08 Sep 2005 22:17 GMT

I am using VS .NET 2003 and planning to migrate to VS .NET 2005 in the
near future for our 'unmanaged' C++ code.
Currently to set some environment variables for the build process,
I start the IDE from a .bat script, which accepts a parameter which is
used in another .bat script invoked from the first .bat script and
finally devenv /useenv is called by the first .bat script to start the
IDE.
Is there any other way to automate the IDE startup process to set
the VS environment?
Is it possible to run batch script(s) from with the IDE to change
the VS environment variables time to time?

Thanks.

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Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP] - 12 Sep 2005 10:31 GMT

You can automate the IDE from the outside. See this article that I wrote:

HOWTO: Automating Visual Studio .NET from outside the IDE
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555391

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>I am using VS .NET 2003 and planning to migrate to VS .NET 2005 in the
> near future for our 'unmanaged' C++ code.
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> Thanks.

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