VS2015 Crashes when I try to Publish

Question

So, I am developing a Web Service, and at some point, my Visual Studio 2015 started to crash every time i right click project -> Publish. When I publish a project it gets deploy

Answer 1

I have been having this issue as well. What worked for me was logging into Azure through Visual Studio, making sure I was connected in the Server Explorer, and then trying to publish afterwards.

Answer 2

I faced same issue with VS 2015 Community Edition while publish. Just installed latest Azure SDK for .Net (VS 2015) - 2.8.1(Or latest one) and it solved the problem.

Answer 3

The closest thing I've found to solving it is to right-click the project and select 'Clean' before then selecting 'Publish'.

Answer 4

For those who still couldn't make it work, Make sure you publish in "Release" mode. For me I was trying to publish in Debug mode which hangs the publish window.

Answer 5

Deleting the *.suo file in v14 folder helped in my case.

Cleaning the solution occasionally worked, but 90% of time the VS crashed anyways.

Answer 6

Apparently I fixed this by:

right clicking project-> properties -> Package/Publish SQL -> Import from Web.config

It seems that somehow the project lost some properties regarding these settings, even though they were in the web.config.