title: Running vs2017 DevEnv from command line with VS2017 Installer Projects
body: <p>I have inherited a bunch of VS2010 (argh!) installer projects (.vdproj) that install some Win Services</p>
  
  <p>Ofcourse in VS2017 those don't exist anymore but the extension 'VS2017 Installer Projects' works great. I can just open them fine and build, which produces the msi files.</p>
  
  <p>However this needs to be done on the Jenkins machine (running Windows 7) as well. So I installed VS2017 on the Jenkins machine with the Project Installer extension and tried to first run the project from the IDE. Works great. Produces the .msi without problem. </p>
  
  <p>Then I tried to run it from a command line:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" 
  D:\ServiceInstaller\xxxServiceInstaller.vdproj /build
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And it does NOT produce anything. Am I trying to do something that is not possible?</p>
  
  <p>There are all kinds of long term solutions of course such as TopShelf, AdvancedInstaller, WIX etc with nice Jenkins plugins but for now it would be nice if I could make this work. </p>