There's really nothing special about the .NET command prompt. It just opens a standard command prompt but makes some configuration modifications. Taking a look at the differences between my standard cmd configuration and the .net cmd I see these changes/additions in environment variables:
DevEnvDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE
FrameworkDir=C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework
FrameworkSDKDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1
FrameworkVersion=v1.1.4322
INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\ATLMFC\INCLUDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\INCLUDE;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\PlatformSDK\include\prerelease;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\PlatformSDK\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\includeLIB=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\ATLMFC\LIB;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\LIB;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\PlatformSDK\lib\prerelease;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\PlatformSDK\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\LibMSVCDir=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7
VCINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003
VSINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE
I also notice these additions to the path variable:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\IDE
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\VC7\BIN
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\bin\prerelease
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\bin
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\bin
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322
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Peter