If they have not removed the ability to run external tools from the latest versions of visual studio, you can use it as an editor for Java code and run ant build script from it. You might even be able to pass stderr through some sed scripts that put errors in a form that will make them clickable.
Perhaps this is not how you want to use it, but then you did not specify which language or development method you wanted to use, only that you wanted to use a visual studio.
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