<div><br clear="all">It is often not appreciated that Visual Studio can be run from a command line. The advantage here is that the it can run in the task scheduler or in a command window. So you can keep working whime all your Kitware stuff builds.</div>

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<div>I create a batch file&nbsp;called Build.cmd with the following content (remember to change FP and the directories in the command line to suit where the *.sln files are):</div>
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<div>SET FP=&lt;Directory where the build file is&gt;</div>
<div>&quot;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE/devenv.com&quot; &quot;CMake\CMake.sln&quot; /build Release /project ALL_BUILD &gt; &quot;%FP%\CMake\CMakeRelease.log&quot;</div>
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<div>&quot;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE/devenv.com&quot; &quot;VTK\VTK.sln&quot; /build Debug /project ALL_BUILD &gt; &quot;%FP%\VTK\VTKDebug.log&quot;<br>&quot;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE/devenv.com&quot; &quot;VTK\VTK.sln&quot; /build Release /project ALL_BUILD &gt; &quot;%FP%\VTK\VTKRelease.log&quot;</div>

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<div>&quot;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE/devenv.com&quot; &quot;ParaView\ParaView.sln&quot; /build Debug /project ALL_BUILD &gt; &quot;%FP%\ParaView\ParaViewDebug.log&quot;<br>&quot;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE/devenv.com&quot; &quot;ParaView\ParaView.sln&quot; /build Release /project ALL_BUILD &gt; &quot;%FP%\ParaView\ParaViewRelease.log&quot;</div>

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<div>&quot;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE/devenv.com&quot; &quot;Insight\ITK.sln&quot; /build Debug /project ALL_BUILD &gt; &quot;%FP%\Insight\ITKDebug.log&quot;<br>&quot;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE/devenv.com&quot; &quot;Insight\ITK.sln&quot; /build Release /project ALL_BUILD &gt; &quot;%FP%\Insight\ITKRelease.log&quot;</div>

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<div>&quot;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE/devenv.com&quot; &quot;InsightApplications\InsightApplications.sln&quot; /build Debug /project ALL_BUILD &gt; &quot;%FP%\InsightApplications\InsightApplicationsDebug.log&quot;<br>
&quot;C:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/Common7/IDE/devenv.com&quot; &quot;InsightApplications\InsightApplications.sln&quot; /build Release /project ALL_BUILD &gt; &quot;%FP%\InsightApplications\InsightApplicationsRelease.log&quot;<br>
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<div>Andrew</div>
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