Up until two days ago, I was able to use Visual Studio 2010\'s \"Publish Web\" option by right clicking on my project and clicking the publish button on the context menu. No
I had this issue recently publishing to Azure. I ended up deleting all the files in the bin folder( deleted all files WITHIN visual studio solution explorer under bin folder, but leave the bin folder itself empty) , and rebuilding the project. This seemed to make visual studio happy and azure publish worked. hope this helps