The target "MSDeployPublish" does not exist in the project

asp.net-web-api visual-studio-2013 web-deployment
Greg P picture Greg P · May 13, 2014 · Viewed 23.7k times · Source

I know there have been other references to this issue. But I didn't upgrade from one version of VS to another. I am currently using VS 2013. The project builds fine, and has even deployed successfully in the past. This is a brand new app. So it wasn't something inherited from another project. Where can I start looking? What can I post here that may be helpful for you guys to hopefully help me? It is a web api 2 site. I am using the publish command within VS2013.

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RonyK picture RonyK · Aug 1, 2014

Adding the lines below to my .csproj file seems to solve the same error for me:

<PropertyGroup>
<VisualStudioVersion Condition="'$(VisualStudioVersion)' == ''">10.0</VisualStudioVersion>
<VSToolsPath Condition="'$(VSToolsPath)' == ''">$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)</VSToolsPath>
</PropertyGroup>

As part of trying to resolve the issue, I've also installed the MSBuild.Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.targets Nuget Package. But I'm still not sure it was necessary in order to resolve the issue.

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