Run the solution from the Visual Studio console without opening the IDE

Question

I am using Visual Studio 2010 SP1.

What I tried the first time:

• Open the Visual Studio console tool from the Start menu
• Go to the project folder (which already contains the executable file)
• Run: msbuild myproject.sln or msbuild myproject.sln /p:Configuration=Release
• This happens successfully, but I can not find the executable to run

• The second thing I tried is steps 1 and 2 on top
• Launch: devenv myproject.sln /Build and devenv myproject.sln /Run
• This works somewhat, but it seems to open the IDE to start the build
• The thing is not to use the ideal at all.

Now, how do I create and run a solution without opening an IDE?

-------------------------- FIXED ----------------- ------ -------

The problem was that I was looking for the wrong place for the executable (noob error). I ended up using this batch file:

 msbuild myproj.sln /p:configuration=Release cd (("Path to executable" usually in the Debug/Release Folder)) myExecutableName cd (("Path to original folder")) 

Answer 1

• Go to the solutions folder
• Run: msbuild myproject.sln / p: Configuration = Release (or debugging)
• cd myproject (in the folder with your solution, this is a subfolder)
• cd bin
• cd Release (or Debug)
• Run: myproject.exe

You can replace three separate cd commands with one:

 cd myproject\bin\Release 

Or just run the executable from the solutions folder:

 myproject\bin\Release\myproject.exe