Microsoft.Build.Logging Namespace

Contains types used for logging the progress of a build. For information, see MSBuild.

Classes

ArchiveData	An object model for binlog embedded files. Used in ArchiveFileEncountered event.
ArchiveFile	Fully materialized (in-memory) embedded file. Easier to work with (the content is expressed in a single string), but more memory greedy.
ArchiveFileEventArgs	Event arguments for ArchiveFileEncountered event.
ArchiveFileEventArgsExtensions
ArchiveStream	Lazy (streaming) embedded file. Might be favorable for large files, as it doesn't materialize the whole content in memory.
BinaryLogger	A logger that serializes all incoming BuildEventArgs in a compressed binary file (*.binlog). The file can later be played back and piped into other loggers (file, console, etc) to reconstruct the log contents as if a real build was happening. Additionally, this format can be read by tools for analysis or visualization. Since the file format preserves structure, tools don't have to parse text logs that erase a lot of useful information.
BinaryLogReaderErrorEventArgs	An event args for RecoverableReadError event.
BinaryLogReplayEventSource	Provides a method to read a binary log file (*.binlog) and replay all stored BuildEventArgs by implementing IEventSource and raising corresponding events.
BuildEventArgsReader	Deserializes and returns BuildEventArgs-derived objects from a BinaryReader.
ConfigurableForwardingLogger	Logger that forwards events to a central logger (e.g ConsoleLogger) residing on the parent node.
ConsoleLogger	This class implements the default logger that outputs event data to the console (stdout). It is a facade: it creates, wraps and delegates to a kind of BaseConsoleLogger, either SerialConsoleLogger or ParallelConsoleLogger.
DistributedFileLogger	This class will create a text file which will contain the build log for that node
EventArgsDispatcher	An implementation of IEventSource that raises appropriate events for a provided BuildEventArgs object.
FileLogger	A specialization of the ConsoleLogger that logs to a file instead of the console. The output in terms of what is written and how it looks is identical. For example you can log verbosely to a file using the FileLogger while simultaneously logging only high priority events to the console using a ConsoleLogger.
ForwardingLoggerRecord	This class descibes a central/forwarding logger pair used in multiproc logging.
LoggerDescription	This class is used to contain information about a logger as a collection of values that can be used to instantiate the logger and can be serialized to be passed between different processes.
ProfilerLogger	Listens to build evaluation finished events and collects profiling information when available
StringReadEventArgs	An event args for StringReadDone callback.

Interfaces

IBuildEventArgsReaderNotifications

An interface for notifications from BuildEventArgsReader

Enums

BinaryLogger.ProjectImportsCollectionMode	Describes whether to collect the project files (including imported project files) used during the build. If the project files are collected they can be embedded in the log file or as a separate zip archive.
BinaryLogRecordKind	Indicates the type of record stored in the binary log. There is a record type for each type of build event and there are also few meta-data record types (e.g. string data, lookup data, EOF).
ReaderErrorType	Type of the error that occurred during reading.

Delegates

ColorResetter	Type of delegate used to reset console color.
ColorSetter	Type of delegate used to set console color.
WriteHandler	Delegate to use for writing a string to some location like the console window or the IDE build window.