How can I speed up Visual Studio builds to match MSBuild parallel performance?

Question

I encounter a noticable difference in the speed when building the same solution one time with Devenv and the other time with msbuild /m.

As an information I have set the parameter "number of parallel build processes" in Visual studio to 4.

Is there any posiblity to speed up the build inside Visual Studio (Version 9.0.30729.1 SP)?

Answer 1

This won't answer your exact question, but take a look at this post by Scott Hanselman. Basically, the problem is that VS does not officially support parallel builds for managed languages, so you'll have to "hack" a bit in order to get parallel builds.