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 a similar issue and resolved it by using the steps provided by Sayed.

The file I renamed was in the v10.0 directory though.

C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\WebApplications\Microsoft.WebApplication.targets.

The original file that was there was dated 18-Jan-2011, after renaming it with a .bak extensions then reinstalled KB2591016, publishing seems to be working again. The new date of the file Microsoft.WebApplication.targets is now 11-Aug-2011.