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

http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio/archive/2010/03/08/tuning-c-build-parallelism-in-vs2010.aspx