Command line switches of devenv.exe

To see this list, type devenv /? on command prompt

• • /build – build the specified solution configuration

• • /project – specifies the project to build instead of solution, must specify /build to use /project

• • /projectconfig – specifies project configuration to build, must specify /project to use /projectconfig

• • /out – write build output to specified file

• • /rebuild – like /build, but forces a clean first

• • /clean – clean up build outputs

• • /deploy – build the specified solution configuration and then deploy it

• • /run – run the specified solution configuration

• • /runexit – run the specified solution configuration and then terminate

• • /command – executes the specified internal command line after startup

• • /mditabs – use tabbed documents interface

• • /mdi – use MDI interface

• • /fn – use specified font name

• • /fs – use specified font size

• • /LCID – use specified language ID

• • /noVSIP – disables VSIP developers license key for VSIP testing

• • /safemode – only default environment and services load for stability

• /resetskippkgs – allow VSPackages once flagged for loading failures to load again

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