azurew website continuous deployment - Web Deploy cannot modify the file 'XXX' on the destination because it is locked by an external process

Question

I\'m running into the following error when trying to deploy an azure website via TFS continuous deployment.

I\'m using the TfvcContinousDeploymentTemplate.12.xaml bu

Answer 1

You ran into a limitation of Azure and .NET

Recommended is restarting your application. This can be done by changing an environment variable which in turn forces iis to restart.

For example: In the azure dashboard:

Set COR_ENABLE_PROFILING = 0

then deploy and then again

 Set COR_ENABLE_PROFILING = 1

You can find a description of this problem here