Vim errorformat for Visual Studio

Question

I want to use Vim\'s quickfix features with the output from Visual Studio\'s devenv build process or msbuild.

I\'ve created a batch file called build.bat which executes

Answer 1

I have a blog post which walks through all the details of getting C# projects building in Vim, including the error format. You can find it here: http://kevin-berridge.blogspot.com/2008/09/vim-c-compiling.html

In short you need the following:

:set errorformat=\ %#%f(%l\\\,%c):\ %m
:set makeprg=msbuild\ /nologo\ /v:q\ /property:GenerateFullPaths=true