Simply put, the difference is which teams are available. However, for the most part, you can consider VS Command Prompt to be super-installed on the MSBuild command line. The VS command line simply adds additional parameters, such as %PATH% , to enable the VS compiler, performance tools, TypeScript, run dnvm setup, and a few other things.
If you're really interested, check out the C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\Tools VsMSBuildCmd.bat for VsMSBuildCmd.bat and VsDevCmd.bat .
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