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Visual Studio Hacks
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Visual Studio Hacks

by James Avery
March 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
19h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 4, Customizing Visual Studio
#35 Modify the Build Output and Navigate the Results
HACK
"Build Stopped with a failure on the {0} project. {1}", _
Project, System.Environment.NewLine))
'The build failed...cancel any further builds.
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Build.Cancel")
DTE.ExecuteCommand("View.Output")
End If
End Sub
The output on a failed build now looks like the screen shown in Figure 4-28.
Of course, on a single project build this hack doesn’t help much, but if you
have a large number of build errors this little hack will quickly show you at
the bottom of your results which project is the culprit.
You can use this technique to write information to any of the IDE windows
you wish. Just modify which window you assign to the variable
win by alter-
ing the constant value for the window, or change the item you are looking
for in the
OutputWindowPanes collection (to write to the Database output win-
dow, for example). By altering the output to the Build output window, you
can provide yourself with more information about the build, including the
progress of any processes you have added.
Navigate Build Results with the Output Window
By default, Visual Studio will list all of the build warnings and errors as tasks
within the Task List window after a build. This task list can then be used to
navigate to the specific lines of code that are causing those warning and
errors; however, there is also another ...
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