Visual Studio 2012 web deploy window does not appear. Locks VS.

Ever since we upgraded to Visual Studio 2012 (from 2010), we have lost the ability to do a web deploy to Azure. I right-click on the project I wish to deploy, select Publish, and VS thinks for a second or two, and then does nothing. Every time I click anywhere in VS, there is a loud beep - but nothing happens. It's as if the web deploy window has opened up somewhere, but I just cannot see it.

I ran this scenario with logging active. There were 50 or so entering/leaving 'function VBDispatch::GetTypeLib' entries and three unique entries.  Below are the last three entries:

  <entry>
    <record>1037</record>
    <time>2013/04/03 16:44:23.577</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>Entering function CVsPackageInfo::HrInstantiatePackage</description>
    <guid>{E1AA7737-69BE-43D0-A425-E3097651E192}</guid>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>1038</record>
    <time>2013/04/03 16:44:23.577</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>Begin package load [Visual Studio Data Package]</description>
    <guid>{E1AA7737-69BE-43D0-A425-E3097651E192}</guid>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>1039</record>
    <time>2013/04/03 16:44:23.608</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>End package load [Visual Studio Data Package]</description>
    <guid>{E1AA7737-69BE-43D0-A425-E3097651E192}</guid>
  </entry>

I have tried reinstalling VS 2012. It did not help.