Visual Studio: How to open file from Windows command line to specific line in running instance of VS?

Question

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)

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?

Answer 1

If you can upgrade to VS2008 SP1, then Fouré Olivier's answer should work to open a file in an existing instance of Visual Studio:

devenv /edit FILE_PATH

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For other solutions similar to the answer you linked to, there's a similar perl script here and a python plugin here (see dte_put_file). Both are for use with vim, but you could fix them up to work for anything. (I haven't used either of them.)