I have seen many articles about this, but mainly for pre release versions of Visual Studio 2017. I have VS 2017 Professional version 15.3.3 installed.
As for myself, I can create new projects or open existing projects and all is fine, but if a colleague, passes me a copy of a project when I open it all of the references are shown with a yellow triangle. This includes anything from NuGet along with the NetStandardLibrary in the SDK dependency folder.
On opening up the reference manager and selecting Assemblies, it gets stuck on Assemblies - Targeting .Net Standard 1.5 (Colleagues existing project) with the message "Loading references", I am also not able to modify what assemblies I am able to look at.
The reference manager screen is not locked, as I can click on projects, Shard Projects, Com and Browse which all work, but on returning to the Assemblies tab, it is still just showing the message "Loading references".