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

I don't think there is a way to do this other than using some external tool. I suspect this is because this introduces potential dependency problems that MS chooses to ignore for the time being, allowing external tool vendors to tackle the problem (and charge quite a bit of money for it).