I wanted to add an “Open VS 2010 Command Prompt Here” option to the context menu in windows explorer. To do this, create a text file with a .reg extension, paste in the text below, save the file, then double-click it to run it against your registry.
This example was adapted from here.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshellVS2010 Command Prompt]
@=”Open VS2010 Command Prompt Here”
“Extended”=””
“NoWorkingDirectory”=””
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryBackgroundshellVS2010 Command Promptcommand]
@=”C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /s /k “pushd %V && “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat”” x86 “
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshellVS2010 Command Prompt]
@=”Open VS2010 Command Prompt Here”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryshellVS2010 Command Promptcommand]
@=”C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /s /k “pushd %V && “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat”” x86 “
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDriveshellVS2010 Command Prompt]
@=”Open VS2010 Command Prompt Here”
“Extended”=””
“NoWorkingDirectory”=””
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDriveshellVS2010 Command Promptcommand]
@=”C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /s /k “pushd %V && “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat”” x86 “
didn’t work for me for some reason – used the INF file here instead:
http://www.paraesthesia.com/archive/2007/11/20/command-prompt-here-round-up.aspx
(had to add x86 to program files in the INF)