Visual Studio 2013 context menus slow only in web application project

Question

I recently upgraded from VS 2010 to VS 2013 for a new project. I\'m finding that when right-clicking on a folder (but not an individual file) in my Web Application project, it t

Answer 1

We were struggling with the same issue from a long time. Right Click on a project or on the any folder inside project used to take at least 10 seconds for the menu to appear. The solution was quite simple.

Just get rid of all the broken references.

Please refer following image. Such broken references need to be removed.

Remove such references and try right click again, context menu will appear withing a fraction of seconds.

This worked for us.