How to open files from cygwin into Visual Studio

Had the desire to open files from the command line (a cygwin terminal, mintty, to be specific) into my existing session of Visual Studio 2008. Here is what you can do.

Adjust paths as necessary. Put this in your bash profile:

export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio\ 9.0/Common7/IDE/
alias devedit="devenv \$1 /edit"

Now, this gives you two [...]

How to open a window from terminal in cygwin on vista

So I got a new Dell through work with Vista installed. Naturally one of the first things I did was install cygwin so I can use mintty. This gives me a decent terminal on widnows. If you don’t know what those are, I encourage you to give them a shot.

Anyway, having used [...]