You could open a command prompt, CD to the Debug or Release folder, and type the name of your exe. When I suggest this to people they think it is a lot of work, but here are the bare minimum clicks and keystrokes for this:
- in Visual Studio, right click your project in Solution Explorer or the tab with the file name if you have a file in the solution open, and choose Open Containing Folder or Open in Windows Explorer
- in the resulting Windows Explorer window, double-click your way to the folder with the exe
- Shift-right-click in the background of the explorer window and choose Open Commmand Window here
- type the first letter of your executable and press tab until the full name appears
- press enter
I think that's 14 keystrokes and clicks (counting shift-right-click as two for example) which really isn't much. Once you have the command prompt, of course, running it again is just up-arrow, enter.
