"View" on a Task node should show me the task element, not the beginning of the target that includes it

When I right click => “View” on a successful Task node (double-click), it brings me to the top of the Target that defines it, rather than the task itself. In a target that executes many of the same task type, this can make it hard to find which one in the source is responsible for that node. (It also might simply be a long enough target that scrolling through it to find the task every time I click on the node is an annoyance.)

(When a task hits an error, it works nicely: the error message includes the line number and “View” takes me there.)

I suspect this is a logging limitation–I don’t see line numbers in the detailed XML file or diag logging. It also might not be worth it to push all this info all the way through the logs to the UI (file size, perf, etc). But, I figured I’d ask in case that’s wrong. 🙂

[KirillOsenkov]

I think the fix from https://github.com/dotnet/msbuild/pull/6399 should have propagated everywhere now, so this should be fixed in all recent binlogs.

[KirillOsenkov]

Let’s leave it open, maybe I’ll file an MSBuild bug someday.