Tool does not make it easy to diagnosis command line tool failures

[David Hoffer]

I am trying to simply create a label in StarTeam using VisualBuild(VB). My command works fine from the command line but not from VisualBuild.

VB does not give me any way to see what is exactly going to the command line. The tool tip that evaluates my expression is fine, but is that what is sent to the command line??!! Aparently not.

When I ask others here, that use VB, they say this is a common problem. They generally resort to working around VB by calling a batch file with the command. They have determined that VB has a very limited macro parsing, command length cabililities.

This tool is tool hard to get simple things to work.

Any suggestions, ideas?

-dh