I came across this project at codeplex here's the project summery: " Project Description The MSBuild Extension Pack is the successor to the FreeToDev MSBuild Tasks Suite and provides a collection of over 170 MSBuild tasks designed for the .net 3.5 Framework. A high level summary of what the tasks currently cover includes the following: • System Items: Certificates, COM+, Console, Date and Time, Drives, Environment Variables, Event Logs, Files and Folders, GAC, Network, Performance Counters...
There's a nice switch in MSBuild : /verbosity: level The available verbosity levels are q[uiet] , m[inimal] , n[ormal] , d[etailed] , and diag[nostic] . /v is also acceptable. For example: msbuild /v:diag This way there's a lot of extra info that is generated for you and hopefully should help your debugging. However there's another way - you can create a task that will just output the stuff you wan't to debug. I used it when I had to check why our custom code analysis wasn't working...