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Is it possible when building a solution to cause msbuild to output the name of the currently built project?

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You could try adding the following to your build scripts.

<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
<Message Text="$(MSBuildProjectName)" Importance="High"/>
</Target>

VladV 2009-11-11 10:01:15

Unfortunately, the message is not seen when msbuild is run in the quiet mode (/v:q)

mark 2009-11-11 13:14:04

You're right. It seems, MSBuild intercepts all STDOUT and STDERR output in quiet mode - calling echo via <Exec> yields no result as well. I'd suggest you to consider switching to "minimal" mode.

VladV 2009-11-12 07:59:41

There are two problems with the minimal verbose level - 1. it is still too verbose 2. the output is continuous, it is hard to see when one project ends and the next starts. If I could suppress all the default output and print just the project names, that would be it.

mark 2009-11-12 08:32:23

It might make sense to post-process the output somehow, say, feed it to grep and filter out all the lines you don't need.

VladV 2009-11-12 09:08:42

Answer 2

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Try /v:m[inimal]. This will output each project and its output file name after it gets compiled.

splattered bits 2009-11-12 20:41:22

Not quite. Building a project involves visiting quite a few auxiliary targets, some of them are actually built. Each and every target built during the project compilation gets its share of output in the minimal verbosity build. This is still too verbose for me. I want just the project names, that's it.

mark 2009-11-13 22:31:05

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