How to run tasks in parallel in MSBuild

Question

Unless I\'ve grossly misunderstood MSBuild, tasks are executed in the document order in which they appear within a \'Target\' node.

I\'d like to be able to specify

Answer 1

MSBuild has a /m command line switch to tell it the maximum number of concurrent processes to build with. The default value is 1. /m:x will use x processes. /m will use the number of processors on computer.

I've used this as part of a shortcut in Visual Studio to run builds quicker by compiling projects in parallel. Scott Hanselman has a few posts about it here and here.