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Tracking workflow compilation error source from msbuild output

Hi,

When building a solution on a machine without VS installed, and getting workflow compilation errors I would like to track down the source of the errors, but the msbuild output is not very helpful:

C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\Windows Workflow Foundation\v3.0\Workflow.Targets(80,3): error : The type or namespace name 'Foo' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

An nothing about the file and line even with diagnostic level of verbosity. However VS manages to find the file and line number. I don't want to install VS on the machine we're doing builds on. Is there a way to tell the workflow compiler to report source file names and line numbers for compilation errors?

Thanks!

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Can you build it on the command line using MSBuild on a machine in which it builds successfully using Visual Studio, or does it fail there as well?

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi  2009-06-15 00:06:54
Fails both with and without VS, VS gives the line numbers and filenames tough.
axk  2009-06-15 12:01:32
The proble is not that I cannot find a particular error, but that I have to start VS on other machine to track such errors.
axk  2009-06-15 12:02:44
Ok, in that case I'm not sure. You may have to get one of the MSBuild or Visual Studio team members to chime in. Have you tried the MSDN MSBuild Forum(http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msbuild/threads)? They are usually monitoring that.
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi  2009-06-16 20:33:06
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I am running into the same issue. I have tried setting verbosity to diagnostic, but msbuild does not provide any additional details.

M. Scott Ford  2010-01-12 17:58:40

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