I despair these days at the ridiculous number of command line tools you need to run, but once you've completely wasted 2 or 3 days of your life on these pointless things, cut and pasting command lines from setup instructions that give no indication what any of the flags actually mean, you can forget about them.

There were days when you just had to run an installer and then you were good to go. Or just get the latest version of the tools (and by tools I mean actual tools with a GUI and everything, gasp!) That's obviously really untrendy now.

But yeah, you can set it all up in VS to deal with the insanity for you. Good thing too, as the ASP.Net team have been drinking heavily from the command line insanity kool-aid.