“Object reference not set to an instance of an object” when building my cloud project

Question

When I build my solution with a bunch of cloud projects, I see one or more \"Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object\" messages in the output. When I try

Answer 1

I had this bug (but not using a cloud project). Turns out the character encoding that Perforce (P4V) was using was wrong, it should have been UTF-8. After changing to UTF-8 and re-syncing the code, Visual Studio was able to find and compile the project just fine.