This repo contains a set of tools to make working with the Visual Studio project system for C#, Visual Basic, and F# easier. You can find the Visual Studio extension it produces here. Current features include:

Once installed, some new items appear in the View > Other Windows menu:

Selecting Build Logging will show a new pane in Visual Studio:

Click the first toolbar icon to start recording both regular and design-time builds in the project system.

Once a build is recorded, it will appear as shown. Right-clicking the build item produces a context menu:

From here you may:

• Save Logs which prompts for a folder to save the .binlog file into
• Open Logs which opens the log in MSBuild Structured Log Viewer
• Explore logs which opens the Build Log Explorer pane in Visual Studio

The Build Log Explorer pane displays build results in a tree view:

By opening the Build Message List pane (via the View > Other Windows menu, as above) you can see data about the selected tree node.

We welcome contributions and suggestions!

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