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Add support for formatting errors for Visual Studio #4460
To cut a long story short, we have a C# project also containing Typescript. We invoke ESBuild through MSBuild. The actual build process works as expected, but when warnings/errors are emitted by ESBuild, Visual Studio doesn't integrate with them correctly; the display is a bit wrong and VS won't go to location when you click the locations.
ESLint has --format visualstudio which emits errors in a VS-compatible format, so the basic request here would be for something similar for ESBuild. I had a look at the formatting options but didn't see one in this case.
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evanw commentedon Apr 27, 2026
There isn’t an option like that yet. Do you have a link or description for what log format visual studio requires?
markboyall commentedon Apr 27, 2026
I think https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/formatting-the-output-of-a-custom-build-step-or-build-event?view=msvc-170 should cover it
hyrious commentedon May 16, 2026
The eslint formatter looks quite simple: https://github.com/eslint-community/eslint-formatters/blob/main/packages/eslint-formatter-visualstudio/index.js
fix evanw#4460: add `--log-style=visualstudio`
Update dependency esbuild to v0.28.2 (#2)