MSBuild / Visual Studio aware error messages and message formats

re: MSBuild / Visual Studio aware error messages and message formats

Coder_Dan — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:40:21 GMT

Like Joe Chavez, I too really want to know how I can get a message in to the 'Messages' list in the Error List pane of VS2010 via a #pragma message in C++.

Please can you help?

re: MSBuild / Visual Studio aware error messages and message formats

Joe Chavez — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:37:13 GMT

With regard to:

Messages

Indicates the number of Messages in the list. Click to toggle whether Messages are displayed.

What is the syntax to add "message" to the "Messages" list in the build output.

So far I have:

printf("UnitTest++: info UT100: %d tests passed.\n", totalTestCount);

printf("UnitTest++: message UT100: %d tests passed.\n", totalTestCount);

printf("UnitTest++: warning UT100: %d tests passed.\n", totalTestCount);

printf("UnitTest++: error UT100: %d tests passed.\n", totalTestCount);

The first 2 "info" and "message" do not show up in the "Messages" list. The "warning" and "error" work as expected.

re: MSBuild / Visual Studio aware error messages and message formats

Hoop Somuah — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:52:46 GMT

also, shouldn't "(line,col,line,col)" be "(line,col-line,col)" for consistency?

where comma separated values in a cordinate (point) and hyphen separates the values in a span

re: MSBuild / Visual Studio aware error messages and message formats

Hoop Somuah — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:48:43 GMT

" (line) or (line-line) or (line-col) or (line,col-col) or (line,col,line,col)"

(line-col) should read (line,col)

re: MSBuild / Visual Studio aware error messages and message formats

baztheman — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:56:36 GMT

Hi,

I posted in msdn with a msbuild error code return question but have not been answered hence I am giving this another try...

I am using msbuild from framework version 2.0.50727.1433. I need to be able to capture msbuild error correctly on command line or via batch files. When I type "msbuild sdsd", it does not return non zero. Why?

Here is my msdn forum post if you want more details: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/msbuild/thread/82615310-3ac2-4265-87fb-c3d7a4e652fe/

Thank you.

re: MSBuild / Visual Studio aware error messages and message formats

Greg Popovitch — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:09:47 GMT

I have a problem. When compiling c++ with cl the file names in error messages are lowercased. This is not the case when building from inside Visual Studio 2005. How can I prevent this case change when using cl?

Thanks,

greg

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re: MSBuild / Visual Studio aware error messages and message formats

Chris Kline — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:16:06 GMT

It's worth noting that "warning" and "error" MUST be lower case in order to be recognized. I.e., "Warning" will not be recognized.

re: MSBuild / Visual Studio aware error messages and message formats

Mike — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:45:29 GMT

This is really nice for Errors and Warnings, but how do you get VS to log a simple informational message. Category only contains error and warning and by experimentation I see that VS ignores attempts at "message", "informational", etc... Is there a magic incantation?

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turha — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:34:30 GMT

Here is the GNU specification for formatting error messages so that line and column numbers can be automatically recognized:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Errors

It says tab stops should be assumed every 8 columns. Your blog post did not go into such detail. How should column numbers logged via MSBuild count tabs and CJK fullwidth characters?