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"))