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 – 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