VC# compile problem

[BobLewiston]

I installed VC# 2008 Express. Following the lessons at C# School at programmersheaven.com, I tried to compile the sample app HelloWorld from the command prompt via:

csc HelloWorld.cs

but I got back:

'csc' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

As far as I know, the VC# install is OK. When I did the install, it said it was also installing .Net 3.5, SQL and a lot of other stuff, so I assume it also installed the actual compiler(s). When I click on the desktop icon, the IDE comes up without any error messages.

I didn't try to compile from the IDE though, because it looked a bit more involved, so I thought I'd follow the lessons in order.

Any idea where I went wrong?

P.S. I'm running under Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2.

[Rashakil Fol]

csc is not in your path. Add the directory in which csc lives to your PATH environment variable.

[BobLewiston]

csc is not in your path. Add the directory in which csc lives to your PATH environment variable.

As Johnny Carson used to say: "You are correct, sir."

[dickersonka]

maybe i'm more of an ide guy than command line, but for the editor, you just need to add a class and click Build - Build Solution and voila!!!!

[ddanbe]

In the pro version you can have a command window with all the needed paths preinstalled in the PATH variable.
In the express version you can use the "Create your first application" on the startpage. It opens a window wich contains a link to creating a console application as well.
But to be honest I'm more a dickersonka kinda guy! Use the IDE! Use the commandline if you absolutly can't do without it. I have seen enough unix commandlines in my life to know what I'm talking about.

[bondo]

if you don't want to add the location of csc to you path you could always fully qualify the location when you compile, ie: c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.blablabla\csc.exe helloworld.cs, although I don't know why on earth you would wanna type this in every time.