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

• Obtain build logs

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.

• Write multi-processor-aware loggers

Outlines how to create multi-processor-aware loggers and how to use the ConfigurableForwardingLogger.

• Create forwarding loggers

Outlines how to create custom forwarding loggers.

See also

• Build multiple projects in parallel Describes how to build multiple projects faster by running them in parallel.