Was Visual Studio 2008, 2010 or 2012 (v11) written to use multi cores?

Question

Basically i want to know if the visual studio IDE and/or compiler in 2010 and 2012 was written to make use of a multi core environment (i understand we can target m

Answer 1

MSBuild supports building projects in parallel. Visual Studio 2008 takes advantage of multiple processors to compile projects.