Extracting msbuild commands from visual studio

Question

Is there any way I can extract msbuild commands from visual studio 2012/2015. I am creating a command line tool where I have to write msbuild commands "manually" for the various C# projects. I wonder if it's possible to extract these commands directly from visual studio, so I will just copy & paste those commands in my tool.

Answer 1

ProcMon from SysInternals allows you to intercept "ProcessCreate" events.

Try running it during the build of your solution and setting a filter to Process Name = "MSBuild"

This will intercept all windows events for MSBuild including process creation. If you display the event properties you can see the command line that created its process.