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James Fleming
James Fleming

Reputation: 2589

Visual Studio Team Services not deploying some files

This certainly seems to be a bug in Visual Studio Team Services, but I thought I'd share this with the Hive Mind and see if I'm the only one whom is having this problem.

I am using https://manage.windowsazure.com to host the site and deploy from Visual Studio Team Services. All of the other files in the solution seem to go where they are intended, but I have two folders & html files that don't.

in my web project I see that the file is properly listed.

<Content Include="App\views\member\profile.html" />
<Content Include="App\views\plants\edit.html" />
<Content Include="App\views\responses\list.html" />

The file also appears as it is expected to in the Solution Explorer, Source Code Explorer & VS Team Services. enter image description here

However it does NOT appear in the deployed location, and if I look in the new "Monaco" dev tool for Team Services, it is not there.

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I tried to manually add the file into Monaco, but as expected, on subsequent deployments, that file and folder is wiped out.

I thought this might have been a case of not recognizing a pending change, but I renamed the folder and still no joy.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 797

Answers (3)

Simon W
Simon W

Reputation: 5496

Check that you aren't seeing the wrong slot in your Cloud Service. Each Service has a Staging and Production slot - the CI deploy from VS Team Services for Azure typically deploys to the Staging slot only. See: http://salvoz.com/blog/2013/02/28/the-purpose-of-the-staging-deployment-slot/

Upvotes: 0

James Fleming
James Fleming

Reputation: 2589

I had figured out the solution. What I realized was happening was that The deployments stopped working period, not just certain files were not coming across. This is absolutely a bug in Azure deployment as near as I can figure. I had to drop & recreate my site in the cloud and the deployment continued to work.

As a side rant. Microsoft makes it extremely painful for someone to submit a bug as compared to other software vendors. And they wonder why their market share is shrinking.

Upvotes: 0

jessehouwing
jessehouwing

Reputation: 114927

It looks like these files are not set to be copied. In that case they would have something like the following added to their XML:

<CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>

Upvotes: 1

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