Errors and Warnings from MSBuild

[Ian Harding]

There doesn't seem to be a build or msbuild specific group, so I hope
this is a suitable place to ask.

If msbuild is run from a command prompt directly on a colution
containing C++ project files like this:
msbuild mysolution.sln /target:mytarget
Then the console output contains nicely colour-coded warning and error
output plus build summary.

However, I have automated the build of a large multi-solution project
using a single .proj file (written by me, not generated by the IDE), it
calls the Tools.DevEnv task to build a number of solutions but all that
is logged to the console is the solution name and build configuration.
No indication of success/failure or any progress messages are output and
the build continues regardless of results.

Is there a way of getting back the C++ build progress results from the
compiler/linker? I realise it is possible to go and read each
buildlog.htm file individually but there are 25 projects each with 3
configurations so that is a lot more difficult than just spotting the
red error line as it goes past.

Thanks,
Ian