Logging in MSBuild

Logging provides a way for you to monitor the progress of a build. Logging captures build events, messages, warnings, and errors in a log file.

In This Section

• Obtaining Build Logs with MSBuild
  Describes the various aspects of logging in MSBuild.

• Build Loggers
  Outlines the steps required to create a single-processor logger.

• Logging in a Multi-Processor Environment
  Describes how logging works in a multi-processor environment and the two multi-processor logging models.

• Writing Multi-Processor-Aware Loggers
  Outlines how to create multi-processor-aware loggers and how to use the ConfigurableForwardingLogger.

• Creating Forwarding Loggers
  Outlines how to create custom forwarding loggers.

Related Sections

• Building Multiple Projects in Parallel with MSBuild
  Describes how to build multiple projects faster by running them in parallel.