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 deployed to Azure.

I use git, so I undid all the changes to my last successful project publish, and yes, I did publish after that build before.

I tried to remove/re-install Visual Studio, and nothing worked.

Last thing I did was reset Windows 10 to factory settings and install everything again. This still does not do anything.

Last thing I could do is Wipe my computer completely and install everything again, but I don't really want to resort to that!

I am desperate with this! I have resharper 9.2 installed and Xamarin.

Thank you,

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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 4

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.