"VisualStudio.NET 2003 Build Here" Explorer Extension

Have you ever wanted to build a project or solution without opening up Visual Studio.NET?

There are plenty of command-line utilities (including “devenv.exe /build“) to do this, but I couldnt find anything that worked from within Windows Explorer.

Lastnight, I finally whipped-up a new utility much like the “Command Prompt Here“ Power Toy that Microsoft created.  It gives you a “VS.NET 2003 Build Here“ Prompt which invokes the command-line call to build.  It is associated with the following file-extensions: .csproj, .csdproj, vbproj, vbdproj, jsproj, and .sln.

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To setup this functionality,  download and Save my new “VS.NET 2003 Build Here” installer, Right-Click the file and choose “Install”.

NOTE: The utility expects Visual Studio.NET 2003 to be installed on drive “C” using the “Program Files” folder and using the default directory names.