How to open and run devenv \ build command in Developer Command Prompt for VS2013?

I would like to build a VS 2013 project from the command line.

After manually open the "Developer Command Prompt for VS2013", changing the directory to the project directory and inserting the following command 

devenv myproject.csproj /build

the project is successfully built.

The problem is that I would like to do this from a C# function. I tried lot of things but none worked out.

When doing it manually I start the command prompt from a shortcut. The shortcut actually runs a .bat file that sets up the environment so you can run commands like devenv from the command prompt. this is the code I am running

string runDevEnv = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE>devenv.com ";
string projectPath = @"C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\CodedUITestProject2\CodedUITestProject2\CodedUITestProject2.csproj" ;
string makeString = "\"";
string slashc = "/c ";
string makebuild = " /build";
string compileProject = slashc + runDevEnv + makeString + projectPath + makeString + makebuild;
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("CMD.exe", compileProject);
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It's probably easier to create a batch file to call devenv (if you really need to) but otherwise, I suspect it's just a matter of how you're quoting - and that you've got a > in your path to devenv.exe. Try:

string devEnv = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe";
string projectPath = @"C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\CodedUITestProject2\CodedUITestProject2\CodedUITestProject2.csproj" ;
string compileProject = string.Format("/c \"{0}\" \"{1}\" /build",
    devEnv, projectPath);
Process.Start("CMD.exe", compileProject);

(As noted in comments, you may well want to use devenv.com instead of devenv.exe, to prevent Visual Studio itself from starting up. If you can possibly use msbuild instead, that would clearly be better - I know that isn't working for you immediately, but it would be worth investigating why instead of abandoning it.)

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