How can I filter to view only the project nodes that were invoked with the specific target/task that was actually executed, rather than skipped?

[MarkKharitonov]

E.g., when filtering by $project we can get something like that:

These are all project nodes alright, but the problem is that the same project was invoked many times with different targets. I am interested in the invocations associated with the specific target.

Suppose I want to see all the project nodes that correspond to the Build target? Or better - Csc task. Because Build target may have been skipped.

I can try to view the Build target alone:

Alas:

• it does not focus on the Build target only.
• it shows all the Build targets, even those that were skipped.

To see the projects that were actually built one can search for $csc:

However, the filter is for the task nodes, not projects and so if I want to stick $time, then it would measure the task duration, not the project.

Is there a way to do what the title asks?

[KirillOsenkov]

Adding $time is very limited right now, so you can only do that for simple results.

[KirillOsenkov]

If you want to filter projects that have a Csc task you can search for $csc project(filter for projects goes here)

[MarkKharitonov]

Yes, I am aware. But the question is in general about projects. If we could filter projects by targets executed by them (really, not just skipped) then we could combine it with $time and get really useful insights.

[KirillOsenkov]

Yes, there's an open issue to get $time to work with all search results and in more circumstances: https://github.com/KirillOsenkov/MSBuildStructuredLog/issues/534

As always, the current workaround is to write a simple console tool that reads the binlog programmatically and does what you want using the API.

[MarkKharitonov]

Got it. Thanks.