Comments on: Adding the Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt to your Explorer Context Menu

By: Erik Burger

Erik Burger — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:41:59 +0000

Thanks very much Thomas, great work.

Erik

By: Thomas Hanks

Thomas Hanks — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 03:56:53 +0000

From the above suggestions, this works on windows 7 on any drive

>>>>>>>>>> BEGIN .reg file >>>>>>>>>>
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\VS2008 Command Prompt]
@=”Open VS2008 Command Prompt Here”
“Extended”=”"
“NoWorkingDirectory”=”"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\VS2008 Command Prompt\command]
@=”C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe /s /k \”cd /D \”%1\” && \”C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\

\vcvarsall.bat\”\” x86 ”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\VS2008 Command Prompt]
@=”Open VS2008 Command Prompt Here”
“Extended”=”"
“NoWorkingDirectory”=”"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\VS2008 Command Prompt\command]
@=”C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe /s /k \”cd /D \”%1\” && \”C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\VC\

\vcvarsall.bat\”\” x86 ”

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\VS2008 Command Prompt]
@=”Open VS2008 Command Prompt Here”
“Extended”=”"
“NoWorkingDirectory”=”"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\VS2008 Command Prompt\command]
@=”C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe /s /k \”cd /D \”%1\” && \”C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0 (x86)\\VC\

\vcvarsall.bat\”\” x86 ”
<<<<<<<<<< END .reg file <<<<<<<<<<

By: Erik Burger

Erik Burger — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:58:13 +0000

Garret Thomson left the following remark.

Note that you probably want to add /D to the cd command, in order to make this work as intended on paths located on drives other than the Windows drive.

I couldn’t post to the blog entry as I’m behind a proxy at work.

Thanks Garret!

By: Erik Burger

Erik Burger — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:33:52 +0000

It might be that replacing \\Program Files\\ with \\Program Files (x86)\\ will do the trick for you. Just check whether the paths are correct.

By: bobby

bobby — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:25:10 +0000

Thnks for this but it doesnt seem to work on windows 7 64bit.. ??

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:43:31 +0000

To convert to VS2010 simply replace

VS2008 with VS2010
Visual Studio 9.0 with Visual Studio 10.0

By: vikas Gupta

vikas Gupta — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:54:42 +0000

How to do Same with VS2010?

By: Erik Burger

Erik Burger — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:44:57 +0000

Hi James,

It might be that the version of the Windows Registry Editor is different on Windows XP. Are the registry keys actually created? If not, you could try creating them by hand.

Best Regards,

Erik

By: James

James — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:22:14 +0000

I followed this example on Windows XP but it doesn’t appear in the menu. Not sure what went wrong

By: Erik Burger

Erik Burger — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:42:16 +0000

You are absolutely right Fritz. I’ll update the post to include this note.

Regards,

Erik