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Is it possible to run devenv.exe in foreground?

I need to build a solution with CAB Project.
As far as I understand I should use devenv.exe in order to build CAB.
Following command line starts devenv.exe in background:
devenv.exe MyActiveX.sln /Rebuild "Release"

Is it possible to run devenv.exe in foreground?
I would like to get build traces not in file but to stdout.

+3  A: 

You have to run devenv.com in this case which is the console application1. devenv.exe is a GUI application and therefore simply can't print anything to your current console.

1 As dumpbin will tell you.

Joey  2010-02-11 10:08:07
What do you mean dumpbin?
Vladimir Bezugliy  2010-02-11 10:20:49
I am not .Net developer.
Vladimir Bezugliy  2010-02-11 10:21:35
`dumpbin` is a small utility which will simply dump the PE metadata. This isn't related to .NET in any way and just a part of how Windows works. An application belongs to *one* subsystem, which, for Windows applications, may mean console or GUI. a console application can create a window as well but it will always have the console attached to it while a GUI application can create a console but can't re-use the one it was started from. The usage of `.com` and `.exe` as the respective extensions simply ensures that when run from `cmd` the console application will be called (due to `PATHEXT`).
Joey  2010-02-11 12:30:09
A: 

You need to run "devenv.com"

Anton K  2010-02-11 10:47:48

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