PowerBuild module provides full MSBuild integration into PowerShell pipeline. Unlike simmilar modules that provide wrapper around msbuild.exe, PowerBuild's Invoke-MSBuild cmdlet uses Microstft.Build API directly. It means it can write build results into output, making the results available for processing by other cmdlets. Default logger utilizes Error, Warning and Verbose streams to log MSBuild events.

You can get the module from the PowerShell Gallery by executing following script.

Install-Module -Name PowerBuild 

Invoke MSBuild and store results to local variable.

PS> $buildResults = Invoke-MSBuild -Project c:\Workspace\GitHub\kovalikp\PowerBuild\PowerBuild.sln `
>>   -Target Build -Verbosity Minimal -ConsoleLogger PSHost `
>>   -Property @{Configuration="Release"}

Manipulate results in pipeline.

PS> $buildResults | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Items | Format-Table ItemSpec,MetadataCount

PowerBuild provides autocompleters for several arguments. They either use MSBuild API directly, or try to approximate MSBuild functionality to generate values.

Default logger can be specified using -ConsoleLogger parameter. The parameter currently recognized these values.

• $null - If console logger was passed via -Logger parameter, then None, else PSStreams.
• PSStreams - Uses Error, Warning and Verbose streams to write logs. -Verbosity switch affects log level output to Verbose stream.
• PSHost - Uses PowerShell host to write logs. This is equivalent of msbuild.exe's console logger.
• None - Disables console logger.

Level of logging is affected by -Verbose parameter.

Additional loggers can be created using New-Logger, New-ConsoleLogger, New-FileLogger, New-BinaryLogger or New-StructuredLogger commnandlets and passed to -Logger parameter.