<p>I am using a Visual Studio project with custom build script/batch file (ala make, ant, etc.).</p>

<p>When the build is run from the command line we have placed colored highlighting on various output lines.</p>

<p>However, when built via Visual Studio (2005 in my case) the output window does not show the color anymore.</p>

<p>Is this possible? I am quite happy to put specific code into the build script if required.</p>

[{'answer_id': 49991, 'author': 'Sean', 'author_id': 4919, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4919', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>The problem isn\'t with your build scripts, but with Visual Studio not supporting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code" rel="noreferrer">ANSI control codes</a> to change the color.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 3596465, 'author': 'Daniel Ballinger', 'author_id': 54026, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/54026', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>The <a href="http://vscommands.com/" rel="noreferrer">VSCommands</a> plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 adds colour formatting to the output window so errors are red. I\'m not sure how they are doing it but it might give you a starting point.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 10394335, 'author': 'theDmi', 'author_id': 219187, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/219187', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If you don\'t want to go with the pro version of the VSCommands plug-in, there is a free one called VSColorOutput, which does just that. I\'ve worked with it a bit, does what it says.</p>\n\n<p>See <a href="http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2011/12/vscoloroutput-visual-studio-output.html" rel="noreferrer">http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2011/12/vscoloroutput-visual-studio-output.html</a> or look it up in the extension gallery.</p>\n'}]
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