There are some experiments in this area. Check if you have a preview feature "Physical File View in Solution Explorer" enabled in your options.

Screenshot showing a search box on top with $property and three property names such as DebugType, and lower the search results in the form of a tree, showing reads and writes of those MSBuild properties.

New in MSBuild Structured Log Viewer:

property trail showing reads and writes during evaluation, in order:

github.com/KirillOsenko...

If you've ever had ordering issues where someone reads your property before you wrote to it, this is the tool for you.

I love K&D! Very jealous!

On the upside, it gives my blood pressure a chance to sort itself out before reentering the fray.

Wow, @drewnoakes.bsky.social and I have debugged deep into MSBuild just now to bring you this magnificent and horrifying MSBuild behavior:

github.com/dotnet/msbui...

Wonderful news Immo. Congrats to you both! ❤️

The Balatro Timeline — LocalThunk It’s been approximately 3 years since I began work on Balatro - and in that time I have personally documented almost nothing about the journey. This is something that has bothered me since the game la...

I've had parts of this written down for a while - but I thought it was about time to document the detailed version of what happened during Balatro development

localthunk.com/blog/balatro...