Navigating to folders from VS

[gemel]

Some of the folders in Visual Studio projects are fairly deeply nested
and this causes me a problem when I want to go to the VS Command
Prompt to use utilities such as ILDASM and CSC with the various
options. Is there a simple way to get to the project folders in
Command Prompt? I have been dropping the windows folder into the
Command Prompt window and this generates the correct path. But is
there an easier approach?

Regards

John L

 

[Gabriel Lozano-Morán]

In the Visual Studio IDE choose "External tools" from the "Tools" menu and
click on "Add". Add the following:

Title: Visual Studio .NET 2003 Command Prompt
Command: c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
Arguments: /k "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
2003\Common7\Tools\vsvars32.bat"
Initial directory: $(ItemDir)

Change the drive letters if you need and click on "OK".

Now you can select an item or folder in your product and choose "Visual
Studio .NET 2003 Command Prompt" from the Tools menu to open a command
prompt with the default directory set to the directory of the selected item.

Gabriel Lozano-Morán
Software Engineer
Sogeti