Output panel: What's the difference between "Build" and "Build Order"?

AxD 661 Reputation points
2022-08-16T10:05:10.69+00:00

Visual Studio comes with two Build feeds for the Output panel: "Build" and "Build Order":

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What's the precise difference between these two feeds?

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  1. RLWA32 40,771 Reputation points
    2022-08-16T10:46:04.3+00:00

    When Visual Studio uses multple cores to build several projects at a time the messages for each project are intermingled when viewing the Output Window "Build" setting. For example,

    231531-build.png

    The view provide by "Build Order" presents the messages in order so that they are not intermingled.

    231551-buildorder.png

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