Visual Studio hangs constantly during build

Question

Probably between 25 and 50% of the times I build my solution, I see this:

\"The operation you requested is taking longer than expected to complete. This dialog will clos

Answer 1

In my case setting "maximum number of parallel project builds" to 1 kinda helped (i.e. building a project from clean state causes 1 min freeze followed by normal build and every subsequent build works fine).

Aforementioned setting can be set in Tool -> Options -> Projects and Solutions -> Build and Run.