Have you thought about launching external applications from Visual Studio? Although this may look obviously simple to a few, there are many who do not know how to launch external applications like Notepad, Calculator or for that matter any executable. Here’s how to launch external applications like Notepad from Visual Studio
Open Visual Studio 2008 > Go to Tools > External Tools
Click on ‘Add’ to add a new External Tool to the list. Set the ‘Title’ to Notepad and the ‘Command’ to the notepad.exe path, which in this case is ‘C:\Windows\Notepad.exe’
Click Ok. You can now access Notepad from the Tools Menu
How do I use the External Tool feature? Well I have Solitaire linked up in my External tools. Do I have to say more :)
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