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Cranking up the build verbosity in the IDE

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We are often asked whether it's possible to crank up the build output verbosity when building inside the IDE....think building from the command line using msbuild /verbosity:Detailed or msbuild /v:Detailed

Sure, it's possible, and we've made it dead simple to do so.  All you need to do is to go into the Tools->Options menu, and go to Projects and Solutions->Build and Run and change the value of the MSBuild project build output verbosity.   You can pick between Quiet, Minimal, Normal, Detailed and Diagnostic.

Enjoy!

[Author: Faisal Mohamood]

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  • Anonymous
    July 11, 2006
    MSBuild does a good job of reporting build errors, but MSBuild can only report errors that the underlying

  • Anonymous
    August 18, 2006
    How do I alter the verbosity level in the middle of the MSBuild script - I would like to have the verbosity cranked up around the problem area when I am debugging, but I dont want everything to be so verbose....

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  • Anonymous
    April 11, 2011
    In VS2010, C++ project builds generate a lot of output that I don't need.  I have been unable to get rid of the following sections of the build output for each project:  "Project Performance Summary", "Target Performance Summary", and "Task Performance Summary". I've tried changing the "MSBuild project build output verbosity" and "MSBuild project build log file verbosity" from the (apparent default) "Minimal" to the value "Quiet", but the three "Summary" sections mentioned above continue to appear for each project. How can I get rid of those "Summary" sections that don't help me.

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    April 11, 2011
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