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 realize this in an old question, but I ran into it recently and here is how I solved it.

Background: I had an old project that I upgraded to VS studio 13. It looks like the project file wasn't upgraded properly.

There are references to VS v10.0, in the csproj file, but I am running VS 13 which is really "v12.0".

So I told the csproj file to use the "v12.0" folder, not a "v10.0" folder.

This is what I had:

  10.0
  $(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)

This is what I changed it into:

  12.0
  $(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)

Now my publishing to the filesystem works!