Programmatically compile projects via msbuild

Question

Hello, I'm trying to compile a solution programmatically using Microsoft.Build.Execution.BuildManager class, the build process works well, i only want to know if there is a way to get the warnings and errors that the compilation may produce (the same errors and warnings that are printed out in the msbuild log file) because i didn't find nothing usefull in the BuildResult object.

The code i use for compilation looks like following:

BuildResult buildResult = BuildManager.DefaultBuildManager.Build(parameters, BuidlRequest);

I've searched everywhere but with no luck, any help is greatly appreciated.

Best regards Max.

Answer 1

MSBuild.exe in your .NET installation folder contains all the secrets. Simply analyze it using a decompiler (ILSpy, DotPeek or JustDecompile) you can see what Microsoft does to utilize the APIs.

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Lex Li (http://lextm.com)