Visual Studio 2010 Save a text file as a bat or cmd file without errors

Repost from...http://stackoverflow.com/questions/854360/visual-studio-inserts-invalid-characters-in-batch-files

In VS2008, select your file in the solution explorer and choose File...Save myfile.bat As...
On the down arrow on the Save button, choose Save with Encoding.
When saving in the Advanced Save Options dialog, Choose US-ASCII in the Encoding drop-down list. Set the line endings as required, or leave it as Current Setting.