>Hi, Jos.
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>>Hi All. Can anyone explain why VS.Net still requires the use of the command window? It's used in several places, eg; to use the stong name tool sn.exe, It's very retro :)
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>I've asked that myself several times. My best guess is: tools like the SN.exe, TlbImp.exe, and all of those other ones, do have several switches that we can use. I guess that Microsoft didn't have resources (budget, people, I don't know) to develop a UI inside VS.NET that should work as wrappers for those tools, therefore, that's why we still have to use the prompt.
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>but again, that's just my best guess about it. :)

Hi Claudio. If MS dont have the resources then we are all in much more trouble than we thought :) I think its crazy for VS to require us to go to a command prompt to run certain tools in this day and age :)