Where is vsvars32.bat ?

Question

_{Saturday, December 10, 2005 3:01 PM}

Hi,

I have installed VC# express 2005 final on 2 computers. On one, I can find vsvars32.bat in the Common7\Tools folder. This folder also contains a lot of other things.
On the second machine the same folder Tools only contains a subfolder VDT. There is no vsvars32.bat and all the other stuff. I tried to repair/uninstall/reinstall but still the same.

Thank you for your help

Nicolas

All replies (7)

_{Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:11 AM ✅Answered}

It turns out that we decided not to include vsvars32.bat in the final version of C# Express.  If you've ever had an install on the machine before, you might see the vsvars32.bat file (or if you have another install of an express version or the full Visual Studio), but if you just install C# Express, you won't see this.

HTH,
Karen

_{Monday, December 12, 2005 3:01 PM}

Nobody experienced that ?

_{Monday, December 12, 2005 3:18 PM}

Not really, no. I haven't used VC# Express but the various beta and final versions of Visual Studio 2005 that I had installed always properly created their Common7\Tools directory tree with a vsvars32.bat file inside. What you report certainly sounds very odd, I've never heard about such a case before.

_{Tuesday, December 13, 2005 2:30 PM}

Oh really ? Why that ?

And this batch file was not the only tool here. What about guidgen for example ?

Nicolas

_{Sunday, February 19, 2006 7:49 AM}

I have .Net V2.0 and C# Express, what do I have to do to use the csc.exe from the command line (if anything)? Can I just add the path to csc.exe to the environment. I'm learning C# and the book I'm using (wrox) says to run vcvars32.bat before running csc.exe, but as you explained vcvars32.bat is not included in C# express.

Cheers

John 

_{Wednesday, March 8, 2006 8:54 PM}

Yes, this is something that bothers me also. Does this mean that in Express version of C# it is not possible to compile from command line? It is somewhat disturbing that one has to generate whole directory structure (project) to compile and run single source file (with .cs extension). I just hate it!

Another thing I find extremely disturbing is that it is not possible to compile native code that can be run outside of the .NET environment. I do not really understand why this is so. Microsoft should have known better.

Zoran

_{Wednesday, March 29, 2006 6:39 PM}

Well, I do owe you appology, you Microsoft guys. At the time I have wrote this I did not know much about c# and .NET. In a way, I understand now that creating native code is not really necessary if one wants to deploy application to other machine. Well, well, ..., really good idea with .NET. I am an believer.

p.s. Though it might be useful to just have a button to click which would generate native application for morons like me.