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Building on the Command Line
Visual Studio 2008
Visual C++ provides command-line tools for programmers who prefer to build their applications from the command prompt. If you want to use the command line to build a project created in Visual C++, you can use one of the following:
When you build from the command line, you can get help on warnings, errors, and messages by starting the development environment and clicking either Index or Search on the Help menu.
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