How does one build a .csproj from command line having a log written to a specified location?

Question

While the \'no-log\' build seems to work smoothly with something like

\"c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\\Common7\\ide\\VCSExpress\" Project

Answer 1

Under the hood, Visual Studio uses msbuild for all it's build magic. As far as I know, this applies to the Express editions as well.

If you don't have it already, MSBuild is a part of the .NET SDK.

Calling MSBuild has the advantage of doing the build directly - calling VCSExpress will just introduce overhead.

Here's the MSBuild commandline that I've used:

msbuild.exe  
    /t:rebuild 
    /verbosity:quiet 
    /logger:FileLogger,Microsoft.Build.Engine;logfile=

Should work the same with instead of .