Web Deployment package Zip not getting created even after specifying required MSBuild args in Visual Studio Build task

Introduction

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provide the facilitation to incorporate Continuous Integration and Continuous deployment. For Azure WebApp/WebJobs Documentation and Blogs are available (like this, this ) to guide you how to achieve those. In this post we're going to have a look at scenario where the Web deployment package itself might not get created and solution for that.

Scenario

• Visual Studio build task has been added and configured appropriately.
• Respective MSBuild arguments "/p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:SkipInvalidConfigurations=true /p:PackageLocation=$(Build.BinariesDirectory)" has been provided.

But even after that Web deployment package zip file not getting created.

Possible Cause and Solution

Ensure you have the Microsoft.Web.WebJobs.Publish NuGet package added to the respective project. If the package is not associated, in your CI execution Buildstep won't throw any exception, rather it simply won't create the web deployment zip package.