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I'm building a Visual Studio solution, consisting out of 54 projects. There are several error lines, the first is:

The system cannot find the file '!(bindpath.bin)\somefile.dll'.

In the output window (although the verbosity is set to "Detailed") I don't see that line. I want to find that error line in the output window to know what project is being built and at what stage the problem is occurring. Double-clicking just gives me the corresponding file, not the history around. How can I force the error line to be present in the build output logs?

In the output window (which contains the entire build log of all 54 projects inside my solution) I searched for that error line but it wasn't there. To understand the context: What did the build do just before that? I'm interested in the history of the build. The verbosity I can't set to "Diagnostic" as that overflows my output window.

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    Are you looking at the wrong output? The Output window shows the output for a lot of tools, not just the build tools. Where did you see the error lines in the first place? Commented Nov 27 at 10:43
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    What kind of project is this? (.NET, .NET Framework, C++, something else?) Commented Nov 27 at 10:59
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    We have to see at least something that can help reproduce the issue. The single line you show is next to nothing. Commented Nov 27 at 15:02
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    From your description I think you are describing the "Errors List" when you say "Output Window" even though there exists an Output Tab which shows the full build log (at least were I use it in native c++ projects / I don't write managed c++ / .NET code at all). With this said I agree with the comment above this. We can't even begin to do anything about this with just the information in the current question. Commented Nov 27 at 15:26
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    "I don't see that line in the output window." -- Where do you see it? Commented yesterday
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