Sample Advanced\Win32\Inherit Inherit is a console application that takes the following command arguments: inherit where: trace file is the name of the file where the stdout and stderr of command will be redirected command to execute is command line of the function you wish to perform. To run inherit from within Developer Studio you need to modify the project settings. In the dialog box Project-Settings-Debug, modify the Program Arguments field. Here you will set the arguments required by inherit.exe. The tracefile can be any name you wish; the command to execute is the child.exe created by this build. Two example settings: (Intel Release configuration:) foo.txt .\child\Release\child.exe (Alpha Debug configuration:) foo.txt .\child\AlphaDbg\child.exe