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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.

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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 - http://blogs.msdn.com/msbuild/archive/2007/04/26/building-projects-in-parallel.aspx

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

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Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 3:00 AM by saraford

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Eddie Butt said:

Scott Hanselman did a post on this not too long ago:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/FasterBuildsWithMSBuildUsingParallelBuildsAndMulticoreCPUs.aspx

# September 30, 2008 9:01 AM

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# October 2, 2008 7:56 AM

unruledboy said:

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

# October 8, 2008 4:36 AM

xjb said:

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# March 3, 2009 8:23 PM
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