Visual Build integrates with the Windows Shell in the following ways:
| • | Double-click a file with a .bld extension from Windows Explorer to open it in Visual Build. |
| • | Right-click a file with a .bld extension from Explorer, and choose Open to open it in Visual Build, or choose Build to open and build the project. |
| • | Drag a Visual Build project file from the Windows Explorer and drop it on a Visual Build window to open the project. |
| • | Drag and drop a project file onto a Visual Build shortcut to open the file in a new Visual Build instance. |
| • | To create a new Visual Build project from Explorer, click File|New|Visual Build Professional Project from the menu, or right-click and choose New|Visual Build Professional Project. |
| • | To start Visual Build from a Command/DOS Prompt, type start VisBuildPro and press Enter; to open a project, type start [Drive+Path\]ProjectFilename.bld and press Enter. |
| • | Drag and drop a filename onto Visual Build to create a new step with the specified action for that file extension. |
| • | To start Visual Build and insert a custom action for a given filename, open a Command/DOS Prompt, type start [Drive+Path\]Filename.ext and press Enter. |
