Solution compilation status?

[drmcclelland]

I would love to see a status bar indicator that tells me if there are any compilation errors in my solution - perhaps something along the lines of a red / green light that sat down in the lower right corner of the status bar, like ReSharper does. I'd be glad to contribute, but I'm not sure where to start - any ideas?

[eberthold]

Hi,

the easiest way would be to have a look at "Solution Error Visualizer" from Microsoft DevLabs. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=VisualStudioPlatformTeam.SolutionErrorVisualizer

I use this extension by myself too and I'm happy with it so far.

An implementation which would be on par with ReSharper would be really tricky, because currently I'm only crawling the Error Window from VS, which isn't always up to date (especially with errors which occur during build)