Comments on: DevEnv vs. the Programmer

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:41:45 +0000

The following piece of code works for me with Visual Studio 2005 SP1. Note that I had to use a slightly different format for the pipe name (r”\\.\pipe\%s”):

from subprocess import Popen
from NamedPipe import AnonymousNamedPipeReader

DEVENV_EXE=r”C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe”
solution = “mysolution.sln”
configuration = “Debug|Win32″

pipe = AnonymousNamedPipeReader()
process = Popen([DEVENV_EXE, solution, "/Build", configuration, "/Out", r"\\.\pipe\%s" % pipe.name])
for line in pipe:
print line,

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:56:54 +0000

I created and connected to a named pipe as well, passing in the same pipe name with the /Out command line switch. The output did not come through the pipe until the very end. I have read, however, that this behavior is “fixed” in SP1 (see http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1411143&SiteID=1).

By: jshuler

jshuler — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:08:45 +0000

Can you post the complete script that you use to build from the command line?

By: visionep

visionep — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:29:25 +0000

I’ve worked around the problem with 2005 caching up all of its output by calling vcbuild.exe. You can’t control what you are building as accurately as you can with devenv, but it gets the job done with live progress.

By: Mathieu Fenniak

Mathieu Fenniak — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:17:05 +0000

visionep — I haven’t tried it with Visual Studio 2005. My experience was with Visual Studio 2003, and I don’t believe I had the problem you describe. It is possible that the behavior of the software has changed between versions.

By: visionep

visionep — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:07:30 +0000

I’ve implemented this to drive devenv.com in Devstudio 2005 and I don’t get on the fly progress, it seems live devenv caches up all of it’s logging and spits it out all at once. Is this your current experience? Or do you think I’ve implemented something wrong?