This's been en annoyance since day one. When I publish my site using the PUBLISH file I got from my Azure site, Output window open and lists everything that is being done. This was nice at first and okey later but now, it's just darn irritating.
There's another window - Web Publish Activity, which can be closed and lists the current step of the publishing process. That one I like - both because it only shows what's going on right now and because it can be suppressed when needed.
There's a setting in VS (Projects and Solutions > Show Output window when build starts) to control that but for some reason it doesn't respect the state when publishing. It does work as expected when only building. However, as soon as I go CTRL+B+H, the stupid Output window gets the focus.
I can simply press Esc to close it but still it annoys the rest products of the Christmas dinner out of me that it forces its way to my screen.
What can be done about it?!