diff --git a/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/plugin.properties b/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/plugin.properties
index 1699f1cf4d9..b4d0f9f1199 100644
--- a/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/plugin.properties
+++ b/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/plugin.properties
@@ -51,3 +51,5 @@ CDTExpPathSymbolsProperty.name=C/C++ Export settings
 CDTBuildProperty.name=C/C++ Build settings
 CDTToolchainProperty.name=C/C++ ToolChain edit
 CDTVariablesProperty.name=C/C++ Build variables
+
+BuildCfgMenu.label=Build configurations
diff --git a/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/plugin.xml b/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/plugin.xml
index 7ca513f50b3..310e3255a21 100644
--- a/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/plugin.xml
+++ b/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/plugin.xml
@@ -82,7 +82,18 @@
                value="org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.managedBuildNature">
          </filter>
       </objectContribution>
-      
+      <objectContribution
+            objectClass="org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject"
+            adaptable="true"
+            id="org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui.popupMenu.BuildAll">
+        <action
+              class="org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui.actions.BuildAllAction"
+              enablesFor="+"
+              id="org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui.buildAllAction1"
+              label="%BuildCfgMenu.label"
+              menubarPath="buildGroup"
+              style="pulldown"/>
+      </objectContribution>
       <objectContribution
            adaptable="true"
            id="org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui.BuildSelectedFilesContribution"
@@ -140,6 +151,19 @@
               tooltip="%cleanFilesAction.tooltip">
         </action>
      </actionSet>
+     <actionSet
+           id="org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui.BuildAllActionSet"
+           label="%BuildCfgMenu.label"
+           visible="true">
+        <action
+              class="org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui.actions.BuildAllAction"
+              enablesFor="+"
+              id="org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui.buildAllAction0"
+              label="%BuildCfgMenu.label"
+              menubarPath="project/build"
+              style="pulldown"
+        />
+     </actionSet>
   </extension>
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions">
diff --git a/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/managedbuilder/ui/actions/BuildAllAction.java b/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/managedbuilder/ui/actions/BuildAllAction.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a8346cd3b29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/managedbuilder/ui/actions/BuildAllAction.java
@@ -0,0 +1,218 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2007 Intel Corporation and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *     Intel Corporation - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui.actions;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.model.CoreModel;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.model.ICProject;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.settings.model.ICConfigurationDescription;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.core.settings.model.ICProjectDescription;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.IConfiguration;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.core.ManagedBuildManager;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui.newui.Messages;
+import org.eclipse.cdt.ui.CUIPlugin;
+import org.eclipse.core.resources.IProject;
+import org.eclipse.core.resources.ResourcesPlugin;
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.CoreException;
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Status;
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.Job;
+import org.eclipse.jface.action.Action;
+import org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem;
+import org.eclipse.jface.action.IAction;
+import org.eclipse.jface.action.IMenuCreator;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelection;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredContentProvider;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredSelection;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.LabelProvider;
+import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.Viewer;
+import org.eclipse.jface.window.Window;
+import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control;
+import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Menu;
+import org.eclipse.ui.IObjectActionDelegate;
+import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchPart;
+import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchWindow;
+import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchWindowPulldownDelegate2;
+import org.eclipse.ui.actions.ActionDelegate;
+import org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.ListSelectionDialog;
+
+/**
+ * Action which changes active build configuration of the current project to 
+ * the given one.
+ */
+public class BuildAllAction extends ActionDelegate implements
+IWorkbenchWindowPulldownDelegate2, IObjectActionDelegate, IMenuCreator {
+
+	private static final String TIP_ALL = Messages.getString("BuildAllAction.0");//$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String LBL_ALL = Messages.getString("BuildAllAction.1");//$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String JOB_MSG = Messages.getString("BuildAllAction.2");//$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String ERR_MSG = Messages.getString("BuildAllAction.3");//$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String LBL_SEL = Messages.getString("BuildAllAction.4");//$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String TIP_SEL = Messages.getString("BuildAllAction.5");//$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String DLG_TEXT  = Messages.getString("BuildAllAction.6");//$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String DLG_TITLE = Messages.getString("BuildAllAction.7");//$NON-NLS-1$
+	
+	protected ArrayList projects = null;
+	private ActionContributionItem it_all = null;
+	private ActionContributionItem it_sel = null; 
+	
+	public void selectionChanged(IAction action, ISelection selection) {
+		projects = null;
+		
+		if (!selection.isEmpty()) {
+	    	// case for context menu
+			if (selection instanceof IStructuredSelection) {
+				Object[] obs = ((IStructuredSelection)selection).toArray();
+				if (obs.length > 0) {
+					for (int i=0; i<obs.length; i++) {
+						IProject prj = null;
+						if (obs[i] instanceof IProject)
+							prj = (IProject)obs[i];
+						else if (obs[i] instanceof ICProject) 
+							prj = ((ICProject)obs[i]).getProject();
+						if (prj != null) {
+							ICProjectDescription prjd = CoreModel.getDefault().getProjectDescription(prj, false);
+							if (prjd == null) continue;
+							ICConfigurationDescription[] cfgds = prjd.getConfigurations();
+							if (cfgds != null && cfgds.length > 0) {
+								if (projects == null) projects = new ArrayList();
+								projects.add(prj);
+							}
+						}
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		} 
+		action.setEnabled(projects != null);
+		if (projects != null && it_sel != null)
+			it_sel.getAction().setEnabled(projects.size() == 1);
+		action.setMenuCreator(this);
+	}
+	
+	public void run(IAction action) {} // do nothing - show menus only 
+	public void setActivePart(IAction action, IWorkbenchPart targetPart) {}
+	
+	// doing nothing
+	public void dispose() { projects = null; }
+	public void init(IWorkbenchWindow window) { }
+
+	private static final class BuildFilesJob extends Job {
+		Object[] cfs;
+		
+		BuildFilesJob(Object[] _cfs) {
+			super(JOB_MSG +	((ICConfigurationDescription)_cfs[0]).getProjectDescription().getName());
+			cfs = _cfs;
+		}
+
+		/* (non-Javadoc)
+		 * @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.Job#run(org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor)
+		 */
+		protected IStatus run(IProgressMonitor monitor) {
+			IConfiguration[] cf = new IConfiguration[cfs.length];
+			for (int i=0; i<cfs.length; i++) 
+				cf[i] = ManagedBuildManager.getConfigurationForDescription((ICConfigurationDescription)cfs[i]);
+			try {
+				ManagedBuildManager.buildConfigurations(cf, monitor);
+			} catch (CoreException e) {
+				return new Status(IStatus.ERROR, ERR_MSG, e.getLocalizedMessage());
+			}
+			if (monitor.isCanceled()) {
+				return Status.CANCEL_STATUS;
+			}
+			monitor.done();
+			return Status.OK_STATUS;
+		}
+
+		/* (non-Javadoc)
+		 * @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.Job#belongsTo(java.lang.Object)
+		 */
+		public boolean belongsTo(Object family) {
+			return ResourcesPlugin.FAMILY_MANUAL_BUILD == family;
+		}
+
+	}
+
+	public Menu getMenu(Control parent) {
+		return fillMenu(new Menu(parent));
+	}
+
+	public Menu getMenu(Menu parent) {
+		return fillMenu(new Menu(parent));
+	}
+	protected Menu fillMenu(Menu menu)	{
+		it_all = new ActionContributionItem(new LocalAction(true));
+		it_sel = new ActionContributionItem(new LocalAction(false));
+
+		if (projects != null)
+			it_sel.getAction().setEnabled(projects.size() == 1);
+
+		it_all.fill(menu, -1);
+		it_sel.fill(menu, -1);
+
+		return menu;
+	}
+	
+	private class LocalAction extends Action {
+		boolean forAll;
+		LocalAction(boolean mode) {
+			super();
+			forAll = mode;
+			setText(forAll ? LBL_ALL : LBL_SEL);
+			setToolTipText(forAll ? TIP_ALL : TIP_SEL);
+		}
+		
+		public void run() {
+			if (projects == null || projects.isEmpty()) return;
+			Iterator it = projects.iterator();
+			if (forAll) {
+				while(it.hasNext()) processProject((IProject)it.next());
+			} else {
+				if (it.hasNext()) processProject((IProject)it.next());
+			}
+		}
+		
+		private void processProject(IProject prj) {
+			ICProjectDescription prjd = CoreModel.getDefault().getProjectDescription(prj, false); 
+			if (prjd == null) return;  
+			Object[] cfgds = prjd.getConfigurations();
+			if (!forAll) cfgds = openDialog(cfgds);
+			if (cfgds == null || cfgds.length == 0) return;
+			Job buildFilesJob = new BuildFilesJob(cfgds);
+			buildFilesJob.schedule();
+		}
+	}
+
+	private Object[] openDialog(Object[] cfgds) {
+		if (cfgds == null || cfgds.length == 0) return null;
+		ListSelectionDialog dialog = new ListSelectionDialog(
+				CUIPlugin.getActiveWorkbenchShell(), 
+				cfgds, 
+				new IStructuredContentProvider() {
+					public Object[] getElements(Object inputElement) { return (Object[])inputElement; }
+					public void dispose() {}
+					public void inputChanged(Viewer viewer, Object oldInput, Object newInput) {}
+				}, 
+				new LabelProvider() {
+					public String getText(Object element) {
+						if (element == null || !(element instanceof ICConfigurationDescription)) return null;
+						return ((ICConfigurationDescription)element).getName();
+					}
+				}, 
+				DLG_TEXT);
+		dialog.setTitle(DLG_TITLE);
+		dialog.setInitialSelections(cfgds);
+		return (dialog.open() == Window.OK) ? dialog.getResult() : null;
+	}
+}
+
diff --git a/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/managedbuilder/ui/newui/messages.properties b/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/managedbuilder/ui/newui/messages.properties
index 098991bb9e3..c80a20aaa96 100644
--- a/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/managedbuilder/ui/newui/messages.properties
+++ b/build/org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/managedbuilder/ui/newui/messages.properties
@@ -63,3 +63,11 @@ NewCfgDialog.0=Existing configuration
 NewCfgDialog.1=Default configuration
 NewBuildConfigurationDialog.0=Cannot create config
 NewBuildConfigurationDialog.1=>>
+BuildAllAction.0=Build all project configurations in parallel
+BuildAllAction.1=All
+BuildAllAction.2=Building project 
+BuildAllAction.3=Build error
+BuildAllAction.4=Select...
+BuildAllAction.5=Build selected configurations in parallel
+BuildAllAction.6=Select configurations to build
+BuildAllAction.7=Build configurations