Clean solution and rebuild solution in Visual studio by Single click?

Question

Trying to add external command Clean + Rebuild both in a single click.

Was not found the solution from this question: Clean and build in one Macro

doing the same as suggested in it, still not found the exact solution.

What i have tried is

1.Make a Notepad file with Name command.exe, and add this code in it

Public Sub ReleaseBuild()
   DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Clean(True)
   DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Build(True)    
End Sub

Public Sub DebugBuild()
   DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Clean(True)
   DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Build(True)
End Sub

2. Then add a command in External Tools

3. Assign a shortcut to the Command

As my External tool no is 4(By Index), i have add this command to ExternalCommand4

And the error occurred when i hit the shortcut.

Can anybody tell me where i am wrong??

Why do you mean "clean + rebuild"? Rebuild itself is clean + build. — enkryptor, Mar 11 '16 at 13:44
but to add this command in the Tools, yes add the text in it — Smit Patel, Mar 11 '16 at 13:47
I suppose "The command is not a valid executable" is about trying to execute a text file as .exe — enkryptor, Mar 11 '16 at 13:52
Firstly, as noted above, a rebuild is a clean and build in Visual Studio. Secondly, you cannot just rename a text file to a *.exe extension and thereby create an executable. You need to compile some code classes into an executable using VS. — strickt01, Mar 11 '16 at 13:52

enkryptor · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-11T14:02:03.467

You get this message

because you are trying to execute command.exe file with text contents:

Public Sub ReleaseBuild()
   DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Clean(True)
   DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Build(True)    
End Sub

Public Sub DebugBuild()
   DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Clean(True)
   DTE.Solution.SolutionBuild.Build(True)
End Sub

Just renaming text file into .exe doesn't make it executable. You are supposed to either compile it or use a script engine.

Clean solution and rebuild solution in Visual studio by Single click?

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