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

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set errorformat=\ %#%f(%l\\\,%c):\ %m

This will capture the output for both devenv /Build and msbuild. However, msbuild has one catch. By default, it's output doesn't include full paths. To fix this you have to add the following line to your csproj file's main PropertyGroup:

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