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Hello -

Unfortunately, it is impossible to use the Windows command line to open a file in an already-running instance of Visual Studio at a specific line number. (VS 2008)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/350323/open-a-file-in-visual-studio-at-a-specific-line-number shows a command-line parameter combination that fails, and presents code for an executable that can be called instead at the command line - but this code does not build out-of-the-box in VS 2008.

Does anyone know of a workaround (such as a VS macro) that is able to accomplish this very basic task?

(Note: only bureaucracy could have prevented this very basic feature from being implemented over 10 years of heavy commercial use.)

Thanks, Dan Nissenbaum