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  • That means the project is building.
    – BJ Myers
    Commented May 12, 2017 at 22:40
  • The weird thing is it's a trivial project that should build in five secs or less and vs kept showing this animated icon for several minutes. So it must be doing more than compiling. But how do I see what it's doing?
    – RonC
    Commented May 12, 2017 at 22:51
  • When a project is loaded VS has to parse through the project file(s) and resolve a bunch of things. Such as check references are in place and so on, this is likely what causes a longer than expected initial process. I have a well-specced dev machine that this is barely noticeable on, one of my test machines has pretty low resources though and loading a project takes forever.
    – Toby
    Commented Aug 23, 2017 at 9:45
  • I think there is more to this. I have a project that is having this issue that both builds and rebuilds typically instantly. But today, it is taking more than 2 full minutes in VS and only displaying this icon with no status. VS is pretty much "hung up" at this point providing no data as to what it is doing.
    – Matt
    Commented Apr 4, 2019 at 17:23