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 deployment) I get the following error:

The target "GatherAllFilesToPublish" does not exist in the project.

Can anyone tell me what I am missing?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Right-click on your project and then select "Edit" (project name).csproj. (e.g. Edit in notepad)

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Find this 

<Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />

Then, add the following, in the above line.

<PropertyGroup> 

 <VisualStudioVersion Condition="'$(VisualStudioVersion)' == ''">13.0</VisualStudioVersion>

 <VSToolsPath Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' == ''">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)</VSToolsPath>

</PropertyGroup>

That's it, save and reload your project.

Hope it helps!