Visual Studio 2015. Unable to publish my project - appears to build fine - c#

Visual Studio 2015.update3 - fully updated & patched - windows 8.1 - .net 4.7.1
2>------ Publish started: Project: Prometheus, Configuration: Release x64 ------
2>Connecting to C:\Temp\publish...
2>Project "test.csproj" (GatherAllFilesToPublish target(s)):
2> Building with tools version "14.0".
2> Target "ValidateMSBuildToolsVersion" skipped. Previously built unsuccessfully.
2>Done building project "test.csproj" -- FAILED.
2>
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
========== Publish: 0 succeeded, **1 failed**, 0 skipped ==========
I have searched and tried every solution online - no joy. Have spent over 3 days trying to sort this out - getting super frustrated now. It appears to build fine but always fails to publish to a local folder on the pc.
Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Note: I have tried Any CPU, Debug, and Release configurations - all end the same. I have configured the build to output diagnostic information which is available on request.

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========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 1 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
========== Publish: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
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Try below steps:
Restart Visual Studio.
Restart Computer
Rebuild all
Clean Solution then Rebuild All
Also you can check below
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https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/saraford/2008/10/07/did-you-know-you-can-configure-the-msbuild-verbosity-in-the-output-window-329/

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Users will launch this application from:
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Publishing files...
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http://sample.example.com/desktop/publish.htm
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========== Publish: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========
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4>
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========== Publish: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========
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Thank you
Ok, I managed to solve the problem and here is how.
Actually, the issue is -even if totally not obvious- related to the diagnostics configuration.
What I did is increase verbosity for MSBuild output :
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which uncovered this :
Failed to produce diagnostics extension's config for MyProject.Azure\diagnostics.wadcfgx.
Error : Value cannot be null. Parameter name: input
Then, the fix is to add :
<Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString"/>
in your ServiceDefinition.csdef and the correct implementations in your csfgs files.
After this, it all builds, packages and publishes.
Now, I am not sure if this question is a duplicate of Azure SDK v2.7 diagnostics issue is preventing publish/package because the title of the question in the link's post is already a step forward, and making the connection between this issue and the azure diagnostic configuration is really not that obvious, given visual studio's default minimal output.
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After that it open blank browser with message (To Parent Directory)
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I got the solution
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