Did you know… Only VC supports parallel building within the IDE - #324

Under Tools – Options – Projects And Solutions – Build And Run, there’s the Maximum Number Of Parallel Project Builds edit box.

Try as you might, this will never work on non-VC projects. Makes me wonder why the label doesn’t just say Visual C++ projects. Probably a historical reason for it.

These are some MSBuild blog entries I found on building projects in parallel using MSBuild. if you know of more recent, or more descriptive content, please leave the URL as a comment.

Visual Studio 2008 – https://blogs.msdn.com/msbuild/archive/2007/04/26/building-projects-in-parallel.aspx

.NET FX 3.5 – https://blogs.msdn.com/msbuild/archive/2007/10/22/enabling-multiprocessor-support-in-an-msbuild-host.aspx

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Comments

• Anonymous
  September 30, 2008
  Scott Hanselman did a post on this not too long ago: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/FasterBuildsWithMSBuildUsingParallelBuildsAndMulticoreCPUs.aspx

• Anonymous
  October 01, 2008
  My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Channel 9 Stuff: Visual Studio Team System 2010 Week on Channel 9! Bottom-up Design with Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architect

• Anonymous
  October 07, 2008
  in most situations, projects are dependent to each other, how can MSBuild to parallel the compiling, isn't build by dependecy tree?

• Anonymous
  March 03, 2009
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