Some assemblies not being included when deploying Azure webjobs from Visual Studio 2013

Question

I've got a Visual Studio 2013 class library project, directory structure like this:

\MyClassLibraryProject
    \ExternalLibraries
        3rdPartyLib.dll
    \bin
       \Debug
       \Release
    etc.

Inside ExternalLibraries I copied some 3rd party assemblies which I then referenced from the project (Copy local = true). I compile the project and in my Release directory I of course see my MyClassLibraryProject.dll and the 3rd party DLLs like 3rdPartyLib.dll, etc.. Good so far.

Then I have another project (Console app - Azure webjob) from which I add a reference to the \MyClassLibraryProject\bin\Release\MyClassLibraryProject.dll (Copy local = true). It looks like this:

\MyWebjob
   \bin
       \Debug
           MyWebJob.exe
           MyClassLibraryProject.dll
           3rdPartyLib.dll

So as you can see, when I added a reference to MyClassLibraryProject.dll (with Copy local = true), it also copied over it's dependent assembly 3rdPartyLib.dll. Good so far.

However, when publish the webjob project to Azure (right-click Project, Publish...) 3rdPartyLib.dll is not deployed. As a result, the webjobs dashboard complains it can't be found and of course the webjob doesn't execute.

Is this user error or something else?

Answer 1

It's an issue. You need to manually deploy or add the dependencies to the webjob via nuget.

Look at this Relevant dependencies (DLL) not being copied when deploying using Visual Studio 2013