How to troubleshoot long builds in Visual Studio?

Question

Is it possible in any way to troubleshoot the build process in Visual Studio? I'd like to see which part of the build specifically takes so much time.

Answer 1

Tools\Options\Project and Solutions\Build and Run\MSBuild output verbosity -> verbose.

In the Output Window, you'll get a time summary at the end, and you can see at which point in the process there is a long pause.