Automating Visual Studio instance from separate process

Question

Is there a way to write an application that can connect to a running instance of Visual Studio and issue commands to it? For example, could I write a WPF app with a button t

Answer 1

If you are just trying to automate builds/packaging of your apps, you should look into MSBuild -- it is Microsoft's build engine that lets you script automation of most of the functions of Visual Studio.