Overall build progress Visual studio 2010

Question

Is there a way to see the overall build progress in Visual studio? In my solution there are nearly more than 30 projects. So it takes a long time to build the entire project.

I am looking for a way to see 8/30 In progress or something similar to that?

Answer 1

It still doesn't tell you progress, but it might help to see the Build Output window. If you know the order of the projects it should give you a feel of how far along the build is.

You can also investigate this Build Progress plugin (leverages the Windows 7 progress taskbar: https://github.com/alastairs/buildprogress/ discussed here http://www.codebork.com/coding/2009/11/04/creating-small-visual-studio-2010-add.html

Answer 2

Here is quite nice extension for Visual Studio:

VSBuildStatus: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/2A2293B4-1808-44AA-B030-661F6803D8A1?SRC=VSIDE