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

In my case I updated Azure SDK first and then opened solution then right-click the project and select 'Clean'. Then clicked on publish and now i imported the publish profile or created custom profiles, no issue.

Answer 2

hit this problem myself, i found that deleting the publish profiles worked. Expand the properties container under the project that keeps crashing and delete PublishProfiles.

warning: you will have to recreate the publish profiles you have just deleted.