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

Visual Studio 2017

Removing Anaconda3 from the installation fixed it. In procmon I saw hundreds of thousands of calls looking for files in the Anaconda3 folder from hundreds of instances of powershell spawned by msbuild.