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Better output window with the MetaProject extension

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Better output window with the MetaProject extension

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- [Instructor] Are you frustrated that the output window in Visual Studio is a text-based relic? Look at this long list of text. This is information coming from outputs from various parts of Visual Studio. I'm looking at the build output now, but I can also look at the build order output and debug and other sources. This is a long list of data. We're going to concentrate on the build output. At the bottom of the output window is the result of rebuilding my entire solution. So I see there was seven successful builds, no failures and no skipped. And then as I scroll up the list, I see information about what files were created, the location of those files. And there's also information like here on this section where it says there's a warning. Warning is NETSDK1137, it is no longer necessary to use the microsoft.net SDK Windows desktop, SDK, and some other information. I can even double click on this part of the output file…

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