Create a standard Visual Studio Error or Warning from a Pre-Build or Post-Build Step

To create a standard Visual Studio Error or Warning from a Pre-Build or Post-Build Step:

you simply need to ECHO out the right format of text for Visual Studio to recognise:

ECHO warning : my warning message here
ECHO error : my warning message here

you can also specify path to a file, so user can double-click on the error or warning:

ECHO myFilePath(line,column): error MyErrorCode: My error message
ECHO myFilePath(line,column): warning MyWarningCode: My warning message

if you run a console application as part of a pre or post-build step, then you can also output the above format of messages, in order to get nice standard VS errors and warnings.

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