title: Measuring total solution build time in Visual Studio
body: <p>Does any know if there is any native mechanism to report on the <strong>total solution build time</strong> in Visual Studio 2008? You can change the build verbosity to report build times per project as discussed <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/82128/displaying-build-times-in-visual-studio">here</a> or report total build time from msbuild  but I’d like to see this in the IDE across an entire solution containing many projects. Short of creating custom pre and post build events, does anyone know if there’s any native output for total build time? Thanks!</p>