Ferry Meidianto

Where the heck is Visual Studio Command Prompt?

You got answer on MSDN forums telling you to run devenv /ResetSettings in Visual Studio 2008 command prompt but after searching you computer you can’t find it. Where the heck is it?

Look at below picture, you will be able to find it easily.

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If it doesn’t help,

Visual Studio 2005
Start Menu -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 -> Visual Studio Tools -> Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt

Visual Studio 2008
Start Menu -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 -> Visual Studio Tools -> Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt

Visual Studio 2010
Start Menu -> All Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 -> Visual Studio Tools -> Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010)

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9 responses to “Where the heck is Visual Studio Command Prompt?”

  1. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    I went to both places in VS 2008, and it’s not listed there.

  2. Ferry Meidianto Avatar
    Ferry Meidianto

    Hi Tina, try logging in to your computer using administration account (or account with administration previlege).

  3. Matthias Avatar
    Matthias

    Wherever I look for it, its not there.
    I checked it at least 100 times.

  4. Ferry Meidianto Avatar
    Ferry Meidianto

    Which VS edition do you use?

  5. Sam Avatar
    Sam

    there is no exe for visual studio command prompt it loads a bat file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC\vcvarsall.bat

  6. Andrius Avatar
    Andrius

    I can’t see it too, do I have to download a special program or something?

  7. tarun Avatar
    tarun

    there is no exe file available…the command prompt is there but no exe file …please help???

  8. Ferry Meidianto Avatar
    Ferry Meidianto

    Hi tarun,

    There is no .exe file. The shortcut is pointing to .bat file.
    For example VS 2010 command prompt, when you check the shortcut property it points to %comspec% /k “”C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat”” x86

    Good luck!

  9. rameshwar soni Avatar
    rameshwar soni

    Do visual studio 6 doesn’t have command prompt ?

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