How to do a parallel build in Visual Studio 2013?

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Ivan P. picture Ivan P. · May 7, 2014 · Viewed 16.1k times · Source

According to this MSDN article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cyz1h6zd.aspx

one "can run multi-processor builds for C++ and C# projects." using the IDE. My solution contains only C# projects, but when I do "Build Solution" I can only see one MSBuild process in task manager and one csc.exe process.

In Tools -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Build and Run I have "maximum number of parallel project builds" set to 4 and my computer has 4 cores.

Is it possible to setup VS2013 to build my solution projects in parallel?

Answer

BlueM picture BlueM · May 7, 2014

I tested the option you mentioned on my larger solution with lot of independend projects in VS2013 and it builds these projects in 4 newly spawned build processors.

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If your projects depend on each other the build will have difficulty to run concurrently. But it basically does work in VS2013.

For reference this is the setting: enter image description here

Putting 8 in there spawned 8 build processors.

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