How can I build Debug and Release at once?

Question

When I select menu Build → Build or anything else, it only builds the currently selected configuration (Debug or Release). How can I make it build, for ex

Answer 1

In the Visual Studio GUI, go to the menu

Build → Batch Build

This will pop up a window with all the possible combinations of projects and their configurations. Select all the items you want to build together and click the Build button on the right side of the window.

That's it.

There is also a button to rebuild a group of configurations instead of build (which is an incremental build).

There is also an option to select/deselect all configurations/projects to build/rebuild.