Sometimes I Can't open Properties page for a Web Role Project

Occasionally when I attempt to open the properties for a Web Role project in Visual Studio by right clicking on the project name in the Roles folder I get "Object reference not set to an instance of an object". It doesn't happen very
often and I have yet to figure out what resolves the problem but it is some combination of restarting Visual Studio, forcing VS Server Explorer to reLogin\reConnect to Azure or opening portal in IE.
I believe it has only occurred during first hit of the day but VS always tells me I'm currently logged in whenever I right click Azure node in Server Explorer and choose 'Connect to Microsoft Azure...'
I have looked in Event log for errors but cannot find anything there. How can I attempt to troubleshoot this issue?

Went away for awhile. Now I can see all Azure resources for a subscription in the Azure Server Explorer. If I attempt to publish a cloud service from an existing publish profile I see a login dialog flash in\out and I have red x's by my Cloud
Service and Storage Account in the Publish Summary page.
From Azure Server Explorer I can see and interact with the Cloud Service and Storage accounts that are Red X'd in the Publish Summary mentioned above. Interesting that when going to storage it does thru up dialog telling me I'm not logged in, it stays a
second or so, goes away then another flashes and I then see the storage resources populate in the tree and can interact.
Now if I go to Cloud Service project and open the only Role I have, Visual Studio crashes. Repeated this many times.
Now if I right click Azure Explorer, Connect to Azure...., it tells me I am signed in as who I expect, click 'Remain signed in with this account', I see error
Server Explorer
An error occurred during the sign in process: authentication_ui_failed: The browser based authentication dialog failed to complete for an unkown reason
OK
I can still interact with Azure Server explorer nodes in Azure.
Now if I right click Azure Explorer, Connect to Azure...., again and choose logout and log in with another account, enter account info, it then says I'm already signed in, I choose to remain signed in but this time get a password prompt.
I can now open my web role projects Role and now the Publish Summary has no Red X's.

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