Can I use Visual Studio Command Prompt
with the free Visual C# Express?
The Visual Studio Command Prompt
is referenced here:
Run 'Visual Studio Command Prompt (2010)' (or 'Visual Studio x64 Win64 Command Prompt (2010)' if you are on a x64 operating system) in the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 \ Visual Studio Tools menu as administrator.
An unreferenced forum post claims it is not available in Express, and lives in \Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat
. The bat file name suggests it may just open a command prompt or PowerShell with a few environment variables, so maybe it is easy to reproduce even without the expensive Visual Studio?