title: Parallel visual studio solution build
body: <p>I know that msbuild is capable of using multiple cores (<a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HackParallelMSBuildsFromWithinTheVisualStudioIDE.aspx" rel="nofollow">see here</a>). But VS2010 'integration' is a bit of a hack and the build output is 'munged' together from each project making it very difficult to read.  </p>
  
  <p>The solution I am currently working on builds at least 50% faster when done in parallel vs. sequentially (on an 8 core workstation), due to a number of idiosyncrasies with this particular code base.  </p>
  
  <p><strong>Is anyone aware of an alternative build tool for executing a solution build over multiple cores, something with a nice UI perhaps?</strong></p>