title: Visual Studio 2022 Can't Build Any Projects
body: <p>Every time I go to build any project in Visual Studio 2022, all I get in the buil output is:</p>
  <pre><code>Build started...
  1&gt;------ Build started: Project: ConsoleApp7, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
  </code></pre>
  <p>The example above is a simple default template for a .NET 6 Console app.</p>
  <p>It never progresses any further than that, the CPU sits around 0-3%, and the build has to canceled. Nothing happens, there's no errors. Same thing happens if I clean, or rebuild.</p>
  <p>That's the full output with <em>MSBuild project build output verbosity</em> set to &quot;<strong>Diagnostic</strong>&quot;</p>
  <p>I have VS 2015, and VS 2019 installed on the same computer, can can build projects fine.</p>
  <p>I've tried:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>Uninstall/reinstalling VS 2022</li>
  <li>Clearing the cache (<a href="https://errorhandlinginskills.wordpress.com/2018/07/28/how-to-clear-visual-studio-cache/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://errorhandlinginskills.wordpress.com/2018/07/28/how-to-clear-visual-studio-cache/</a>)</li>
  <li>Adding/removing features from VS</li>
  <li>Rebooting the PC</li>
  <li>Restoring Nuget packages manually (right-click solution -&gt; restore)</li>
  <li>Checking for VS updates</li>
  <li>Running the dotnet commands from Powershell (dotnet run/clean/build) all work fine</li>
  </ul>
  <p>I just can't think where to go next with this. Any help or suggestions, would be greatly appreciated, maybe even some condolences at this point ;).</p>