How to change verbosity of the MSBuild task?

Question

I\'d like to have a different verbosity for the msbuild project invoked from the commandline, and those invoked by the MSBuild task from within the project. For example:

Answer 1

You have two options (at least) :)

1. Create one additional msbuild script for building abc projects "BuildABC.proj"

   In your parent script execute MSBuild using Exec task and call "BuildABC.proj" with minimal verbosity

   You have to pass explicitly all parent properties needed in the BuildABC project to msbuild /p parameter.

2. Use custom logger. See this how to do it. In this case you can use your original script:

   In your custom logger do not log anything related to e.g. "a.csproj" project between ProjectStarted and ProjectFinished events where e.ProjectFile == "a.csproj" (to disable diagnostic logging on "a.csproj" project while building parent project with diagnostic verbosity)