whats the difference between Developer and MSbuild Command prompt

Question

whats the difference between Developer and MSbuild Command prompt?which one do you use for general purpose application building?does it matter on which to use and how?

Answer 1

To put simply, the difference is what commands are available. For the most part, though, you can consider the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt as being a super-set to the MSBuild command prompt. The Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt just adds additional settings such as adjusts %PATH% to include Visual Studio tooling, performance tools, TypeScript compiler, runs dnvm setup, and a few other things.

If you're really curious, have a look in the C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\\Tools directory for VsMSBuildCmd.bat and VsDevCmd.bat .