Features

The Cake.Issues.MsBuild addin provides the following features.

Tip: Running MSBuild

MSBuild can be run using the DotNet aliases or MsBuild aliases.

Basic features

• Reads errors and warnings from MSBuild log files.
• Provides URLs for all code analysis (CA*) and StyleCop (SA*) warnings.
• Support for custom URL resolving using the MsBuildAddRuleUrlResolver alias.

Supported log file formats

• MsBuildBinaryLogFileFormat alias for reading issues from binary log files.
• MsBuildXmlFileLoggerFormat alias for reading issues from log files created by MSBuild Extension Pack XmlFileLogger.

Supported IIssue properties

• IIssue.ProviderType
• IIssue.ProviderName
• IIssue.Run (1)
• IIssue.Identifier (2)
• IIssue.ProjectName
• IIssue.ProjectFileRelativePath
• IIssue.AffectedFileRelativePath
• IIssue.Line
• IIssue.EndLine
• IIssue.Column (3)
• IIssue.EndColumn
• IIssue.FileLink (4)
• IIssue.MessageText
• IIssue.MessageHtml
• IIssue.MessageMarkdown
• IIssue.Priority
• IIssue.PriorityName
• IIssue.Rule
• IIssue.RuleUrl (5)

1. Can be set while reading issues
2. Set to IIssue.MessageText
3. Only for MsBuildXmlFileLoggerFormat
4. Can be set while reading issues
5. For code analysis (CA*) and StyleCop (SA*) warnings. Support for additional rules can be added through a custom MsBuildAddRuleUrlResolver