pipes in Visual Studio build events -

I am using the Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition with SP1.

I have a pre-link event for which a program should be invited and send its output to another.

  foo | Bar  

This command works as expected from a command line or batch file. The command fails when applicable from a pre-link event (even if the pre-link event holds separate batch file commands). Runs 'Fu' and produces production which is visible in the visual studio, but this output is not fed for 'bar', and in fact it appears 'bar' is never implemented. Even when the pre-link event invites the CMD or NMKE, which in turn invokes the piped orders, only runs 'Foo'.

Is the visual studio broken and / or there are some mysterious rituals which I can do to do this for work?

The answer was given to the operator; I suspect that this may happen with the pipes .