The target “MSDeployPublish” does not exist in the project

Question

I know there have been other references to this issue. But I didn\'t upgrade from one version of VS to another. I am currently using VS 2013. The project builds fine, and ha

Answer 1

For those who are deploying a WebJob, this error might also be due to a missing webjob-publish-settings.json file (it should be located in the Properties folder of the WebJob project). Its structure should be e.g:

{
  "$schema": "http://schemastore.org/schemas/json/webjob-publish-settings.json",
  "webJobName": "MyWebJob",
  "startTime": "2017-01-27T03:00:00+00:00",
  "endTime": null,
  "jobRecurrenceFrequency": "Hour",
  "interval": 1,
  "runMode": "Scheduled",
  "is_singleton": true
}

(this is for an hourly scheduled job).