Why do I get the error “The target GatherAllFilesToPublish does not exist”?

Question

I have recently installed the new Azure development tools for Visual Studio 2010 service pack 1. Every time that I try to publish an existing website (using file system depl

Answer 1

I had similar issue when I wanted to publish my ASP.Net application to Windows Azure. After many trial and error finally this solution worked for me. This does not need any renaming of files or any installation / reinstallation of hotfixes / patches. Here is what you have to do:

Open the ASP.Net project file (.csproj) in Wordpad / Notepad and find the line looking similar to this:

Replace it with line as given below: