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DevEnv (or DevEnv.exe) is the file name of the main executable of Microsoft Visual Studio.

DevEnv (or DevEnv.exe) is the file name of the main executable of Microsoft Visual Studio.

Use this tag for questions related to the development environment, such as questions about Visual Studio's Build Configuration Management, bugs in code that are related to running inside Visual Studio, or questions about Visual Studio Plugin development.

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Passing MSBuild options when calling devenv

Is there a way to pass command line switches to devenv which are then passed as-is when it calls MSBuild?
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White screen while opening visual studio

I installed visual studio 14.0 yesterday and there were some problem before installation itself although I installed it and when I opened it it showed a dll file missing so I downloaded it and after that it showed component missing so I went to…
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Visual Studio 2013 devenv fails to build project when not signed in on Windows 10

I have project that I build with the following command in zsh on a Windows 10 machine: devenv $sln -project $project -rebuild "Release|x64" If I run it locally in a terminal, it always works. I am however running it via the task scheduler and…
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Using IncrediBuild with DevEnv.exe vs MSBuild.exe

I use Xorax IncrediBuild to build Visual Studio 2013 (or later) solutions and projects, they're mostly .vcxproj with a bunch of .csproj ones. It took me a little bit of digging, but I've learned that: When IncrediBuild is used with the regular…
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Building x64 C++ project from command line says: This operation should only take place on the UI thread

Visual Studio 2013 has a problem when building, it displays an error message as follows: c:>devenv /build debug /project (project name) /projectconfig "debug|x64" (solution Name).sln 1>This operation should only take place on the UI thread.
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No devenv file in Microsoft visual Express 10

i am trying to build the google dart project on windows XP. following the installation documentation, i ran accross a problem. The python script needs to call devenv. The problem is that with Visual 10 Express, i don't have this exe which should be…
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how to remove or stop auto generating debug.log file in vscode?

I'm working with nextjs project on the vscode. From a few days ago, debug.log file generated automatically for any directory where I'm working with. I want to stop generating this debug.log automatically, or at least want to know how to add this…
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devenv.com hangs in VS 2013

When calling devenv.com from command line or FinalBuilder action within our automated build it sometimes hangs and never gets past compiling step. It is called with this parameters from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio…
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Creating a new Visual Studio solution from the command line

Is there a way I can use devenv to create a new Visual Studio solution from a multi-project template that I made. There are lots of resources on building with the command line, but I can't seem to find anything on creating a new solution. I want to…
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How can i retrieve devenv.exe path for a vspackage installation?

I'm following this tutorial http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb458038.aspx to create a VsPackage Setup. In the part of the creation of an installer class appears a reference to this location in the registry…
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Can there be any difference between Clean+Rebuild and Clean+Build

I've got a msbuild task in cruiseControl which first Clearn and then Rebuild. Can there be any difference if I change it as Clean and Build (rather than rebuild) ? Rebuild does "Clean + Build" for each project. "Clean + Build" in the solution will…
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Specify build verbosity for command line build using devenv

Is there a way to specify build verbosity for command line build using devenv? I'm trying to make a test that builds our solution twice and the second time it builds it should output: Build: 55 succeeded, 0 failed, 69 up-to-date, 1 skipped But it…
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Visual Studio 2012 Build Output: A task was canceled

My team has a virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, SP1 that we use for running our nightly build. We are using Visual Studio 2012 and launching the build process by running devenv.exe via System.Diagnostics.Process.Start from a…
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devenv.exe execute through jenkin's job doesn't work

i am trying to execute devenv.exe through windows batch command plugin in Jenkins but it keeps on executing and fails to launch the application. Console Output : **In progressConsole Output Started by user anonymous Building on master in workspace…
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Using devenv.exe from the command line and open a Solution

I've configured my VSIX-Project to run devenv.exe when I press F5. This opens the start page from Visual Studio. In order to test my extension I have to manually open a specific solution. I tried to run devenv with the argument '/Run…
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