Feature Request: Add a verbosity level to silence "Processing WinMD ..." message

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Issue type
Feature
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Tech stack
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Research direction

Start with the CppWinRTVerbosity handling and the code that emits the "Processing WinMD ..." message; the issue does not name specific files or tests. Reproduce the build in a C++/WinRT WinUI3 project, then verify that low verbosity suppresses this message while the existing verbosity behavior remains intact.

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Description

Version

2.0.250303.1

Summary

I tried to set CppWinRTVerbosity in vcxproj to low, but it is still printing the not-very-meaningful "Processing WinMD ..." message. Which already overwhelms my CI output for a moderately-sized project. Please consider NOT printing that message when CppWinRTVerbosity is low.

Reproducible example

Just create a C++WinRT WinUI3 project and build

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