Visual Studio COM access

Is it possible to control Visual Studio like you开发者_运维百科 can control Excel through the Python COM API?

I'm trying to kick off a build through COM (don't ask!)

An example would be much appreciated.

Yes. See the Visual Studio SDK.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb166441%28VS.80%29.aspx

There are C# wrappers for the COM objects, but the underlying technology is COM.