I successfully published several projects to Azure websites a few weeks ago.
Then I worked with cloud services and it also worked very well.
But yesterday, when I tried to publish a new Silverlight project to a new Azure website, I couldn't get it to work.
I downloaded the publish profile from my Azure dashboard and then I imported this profile into my VS project.
After that, if I select "Web Deploy" as the publish method, all fields are filled (service URL, user name, etc.) but when I hit "Validate connection", I get the following error message:
The target "MSDeployTestCOnnection" does not exist in the project
And if I select "FTP" as the publish method, I have to fill the fields and then the connection is validated.
But if I try to publish, I get the following error:
The target "GatherAllFilesToPublish" does not exist in the project.
And I just can't remember any change I could have made on my computer since the last time this worked...
Any help appreciated!
Do you have the free version of Visual Studio (Express)?
Try removing the following Web Publish files:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/da-DK/windowsazuredevelopment/thread/116d3562-99fb-45b0-acf9-b35bc393682e
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This may be a basic question, but I've searched for a little while and couldn't find anything specific to this.
I bought a domain and created the web app in Azure for hosting, and set up the DNS so that it's linked to the Azure Web App. Using Visual Studio 15, I opened the website via the FTP connection settings found in Azure, and was able to create files, edit the html, css, etc. Going forward, I wanted to use Web Deploy with Visual Studio to push new builds of the code up to the web site. I downloaded the publish profile from Azure, and imported it into a new visual studio project. I also copied all the previous files over(it wasn't alot). I got the correct Web Deploy settings and successfully published the solution to the Web App in Azure. However, it never updates the code with my new changes. When I look at the site in Firebug it still has the same files/code that it had when I edited it via FTP.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
I followed your steps and everything published perfectly for me. Did you try to simply refresh the file list to make sure Visual Studio is seeing all your files? Are they included in your project?
Also, when you go to publish, on the 4th step labeled preview, try to hit "start preview" and see if it detects any changes.
Also, could you tell me a bit more about your project? Is it a website project folder, mvc solution, etc?
You could try to clean the website to make sure your new files are getting deployed.
Clean Windows Azure Website
At my company, we have received Team Foundation Server 2013 and Visual Studio 2013 to manage our code and deployment.
I'm trying to make it work but I can't figure out what I miss.
So here is the scenario :
I have a Web Application with no DB for the moment.
It's added to TFS and I have checked in everything.
There is a Build Controller on TFS.
On the Web Server, Web Deploy is installed and Management Services is there and allow remote management. The services are running. I have create a website but the folder with the source is empty for now.
My objective is to build on TFS and deploy from there in one single operation with the build definition.
Here is my problem, the build is working fine and everything is put in the drop folder. But it deploy nothing on the webserver and It raised no error on the build.
I tryied two techniques for the MSBuild arguments:
1) I create a publish profile in VS, when I publish from there it works but with this argument it does nothing:
/p:DeployOnBuild=true;PublishProfile=PublishIGU
2) I use this argument :
/p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:DeployTarget=MsDeployPublish
/p:MSDeployServiceURL=https://{serverWeb}:8172/msdeploy.axd
/p:DeployIISAppPath=IGUDEV /p:MsDeployPublishMethod=WMSVC
/p:AllowUntrustedCertificate=True /p:UserName=DOMAIN\user
/p:Password=XXXXX
And... it still does nothing.
I read a lot on the internet and follow tutorials but I can't figure this out.
Like I don't have any error message I don't know where to start.
Thank you if you see something that could help me.
I have an azure website that I have successfully linked to a team project in VSO. When I go to the "deployments" tab of this site in azure management, it says:
The team project is linked. Visual Studio Online will build and deploy
your project to Windows Azure on your next check-in.
Below, it gives options to check in from VS2012 or 2010. I am using VS 2013.
In VS, I am able to check in changes and see those changes building in the cloud in the team explorer. My expectation is that after the changes build, they should be auto deployed to the website. This is not happening. I have made several checkins, and none are deployed to the website. It's probably that I have something configured incorrectly, but I'm not sure how to debug this.
In the Build Settings I am using the TFvcContinuousDeploymentTemplate.12.xaml build process template. One thing I did notice is that the under the Deployment Parameters, I noticed that Windows Azure Deployment Environment is empty, but if I try to populate that I'm not sure what to enter for "Web site name" or "Webspace" under the web site radio buttom.
I have followed instructions on these websites to no avail:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-continuous-delivery-use-vso/
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/3-584
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/get-started/deploy-to-azure-vs.aspx
How can I check on the status of the deployment? How can I make sure that the project/solution is correctly configured to deploy/publish and not just build?
Some additional info:
To set up the continuous deploy, I goto azure management portal, click websites, open the website in question. Click the Deployments tab. It says "The team project is linked, Visual studio online will build and deploy your project to Windows Azure on your next check in". Under YOUR SERVER is lists the correct visual studio online URL for my source project (https://------.visualstudio.com). This is my first time trying CD. It has not successfully deployed yet, but the build is working. Every time I check in changes, a cloud build is triggered and it is successful.
I'm new to this, so I am likely making some unfounded assumption, but after going through the instructions multiple times I'm not sure what I can be missing.
Thank you!
l19 has the right idea in the comment responding to my post. I needed to specify a Windows Azure Deployment Environment. The website name is the name of the website. Webspace is a bit trickier, and unfortunately the documentation link in visual studio redirects to a not found page. This has to be precise (e.g., "west us" won't work). I was able to figure out the proper string by creating a new project from azure and associating it with vso from the start. In this case, the build definition was correctly configured. I opened the Windows Azure Deployment Environment and saw that the webspace was set to "eastuswebspace", so I used the same string in my real build definition and it worked.
I'm trying to publish an Azure application, but can't sign in using Visual Studio 2010. I get the error message "The web browser cannot be started. To resolve this problem, you must restart Windows."
I've tried both rebooting and making Internet Explorer the default browser, but I still get the error message. This also occurs when clicking on other links (for example "Online Privacy Statement" in the same publish dialog box).
How can I fix this, or alternatively, are there any other easy ways to publish to Azure?
There are several ways to publish to Azure. Depending on your preference, some of them may be easy. Some, not so much.
First of all, are you using a source control? If you're using git, then you can use Azure Git Repository that comes free with Azure Websites and also Azure Cloud Services. So when you push your code to the Azure repository, it automatically publishes the final bits to the corresponding site.
If you're using TFS locally (at home or office), you can set up a build task that'll deploy the bits to Azure. Also, check out TFS Preview if you are comfortable with a Microsoft hosted free TFS server.
If you feel comfortable using FTP, you can get the FTP account details from the Azure portal when you set up a new azure website or a cloud service.
Finally, one of the easiest way to publish to Azure is to use the Publish Profile feature.
You'll find a link called "Download Publish Profile" associated with
your azure website. Click on that to download the profile (an XML
file).
Then right click on your VS project and hit Publish. Under Profile
tab, select "Import" and pick this downloaded file.
It should populate all the details for you. Test your connection to make sure everything works okay.
Publish and ENJOY!
UPDATE: Based on the comment to this answer, adding screenshot to show where to get the FTP details for your azure website.
Using VStudio 2010 wizard to set up basic 'Hello World' asp.net web role, works under emulator but when importing publish file from azure management portal get error
'publishsettings does not contain valid publish settings for Windows Azure'.
Have set up web site, storage and cloud service in Azure latest management portal (preview version) so unclear what problem is.
If you are using Windows Azure Websites (Preview) and using Visual Studio Publish wizard for your application you would need to download the publish file from your website located as shows below:
After that you can just use this .publishsettings file in VS Publish wizard and there not even a single click needed and your website will be published.
Please see my latest blog: Deploying Windows Azure Website using Visual Studio Web Publish wizard
I had the same issue.
Seems like the publishsettings files related to specific sites/services/apps are always rejected.
The solution seems to be to get a publishsettings file for your entire Azure account instead, and after that you're able to access your sites/services/apps or create new ones and publish to them.
This is performed using the following steps:
. Right click the project in VS10 and open 'Publish...' (the Azure
publish settings)
. Go to the Summary tab. Here you are able to download a publish settings file related to your Azure account. This file is named something like 'three month free evaluation period 1-1-2013-credentials.publishsettings' rather than the publish settings file for a particular site, which would be named somethiung like 'mysite.azurewebsites.net.publishsettings'. Import that file - it will work!
3. Now go to the settings tab. Here you can select a cloud service (select existing or you can create a new one) and assign some settings.
. When the configuration is complete and you've clicked the Next button, VS10 will start deploying your project to the selected service. This is displayed in the 'Windows Azure Activity Log' output window in VS10.