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Currently the msbuild logs for team build are appalling as they are just plain text and are very difficult to read. Also the ones created by my build are approx 30Mb and take quite a while to download (our TFS server is in our datacentre).
Does anyone know any way of being able to view these logs easier, prefereably integrated with either TFS itself or TFS WebAccess?
Take a look at the following blog post I did a while ago:
http://www.woodwardweb.com/teamprise/000415.html
This describes how to create a simple ASP.NET page that will stream the contents of your log file to you over HTTP. The advantage of doing it this way is that you don’t have to wait for the entire page to load before the log starts to render for you in Visual Studio.
Also – you can add some simple formatting to the file while streaming. In the example on my blog I simply make the start of each target appear in bold to make them stand out a bit more, but you can see how you could go crazy with this approach if you wanted.