Azure SDK 2.5.1 fails to Publish cloudService

Question

After successfully upgrading my cloud service to the new \"Azure SDK for .NET 2.5.1\" I got the following error when trying packaging/publishing.

Answer 1

I searched locally for the required dll and found it in almost all previous versions of the Azure .Net SDK had it (from v2.0 onwards I believe).

So in order to fix this you need to copy the following dlls from the previous version v2.4 of the SDK to the similar location for v2.5.

SDK installation paths.

• Src location: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\.NET SDK\v2.4\bin"
• Dst location: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Azure\.NET SDK\v2.5\bin"

Dlls to copy (missing):

1. Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Packaging.dll
2. Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceModel.Common.dll

Since there may be a better answer to this I will not mark this as an answer yet.