How to get compilation errors in to a textfile

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I am trying to read compilation errors into a text file...how to read the compiler errors into a text file... anybody can help

Posted 19-Feb-14 1:37am

Divyay208

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-Feb-14 12:05pm

This is quite possible. But — of what compiler, compiling what? What scenario are you interested in? The answers would be very different.
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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2014-02-19T01:47:00

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You can do it with C++, but you can't do it with C# apparently: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj651643.aspx[^]

"After you build a project in the Visual Studio IDE, you can view information about that build in the Output window. By using this information, you can, for example, troubleshoot a build failure. For C++ projects, you can also view the same information in a .txt file that's created and saved automatically. For managed-code projects, you can copy and paste the information from the Output window into a .txt file and save it yourself."

Posted 19-Feb-14 1:47am

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Divyay208 19-Feb-14 8:05am

thank you for your response... will you please explain me how to copy that output window error message into a text file...i just want to show the error message in catch block txt file

OriginalGriff 19-Feb-14 8:13am

A catch block error is different: that isn't a compilation error, that's a runtime error.
But in VS that is just trivially easy!
Click in the output pane, and press CTRL+S
That will bring up a dialog letting you save the entire output pane to a text file.

Divyay208 20-Feb-14 1:52am

k can u please give some suggestion that am writing C# .net code in my own editor and now i want to compile that code before saving it into a .cs file

OriginalGriff 20-Feb-14 4:32am

Ah! That's different - you should have said!

To compile it is pretty easy: CSC will do that (and a quick google will get you the parameters you need). Output is slightly more complex, but not a lot.
The simplest way to do it is to pipe the output to a text file:
csc program.cs >> err.txt
And that will work from a command prompt, and should work from Process.Start.
But...if you are using Process.Start to compile, there may be a better way. Have you looked at Process and it's properties at all?