I've created a utility for making the Visual Studio build logs more readable when you take advantage of parallel builds.  You can read more information and download the source code here.

I've put version 1.0 of VersionUtil online for download.

VersionUtil is a command-line utility for developers which will automatically update the version number in their DLLs or EXEs without needing to edit the RC files.

http://www.InsiderCoding.com/page/VersionUtil.aspx