Web Deploy Failing After Upgrade to VS 2012

Question

I have a project, for which the publish (web deploy) to localhost was working under VS 2010. I made no changes to the project, other than opening it in VS 2012 RC.

The publish from VS 2012 RC failed when I attempted it, with message saying that the service does not exist, even though the site exists in IIS and can be posted to.

Now when I open the project in VS 2010 and attempt to publish, the publish fails with the same issue. Other projects where I have not attempted a publish in VS 2012 RC still have working publish profiles.

Has anyone else run into this issue, and if so, what have you done to correct it? I have looked into all the usual issues as to why a publish might fail, but publishes of other projects to IIS as local host on the same machine are working, so I think that rules out any failing services.

Selfdeceit

perhaps something here is relevant - #2946840 – Virus

Nope not relevant to my issue, sorry. This is the same IIS instance on the same machine, same sites. The only difference is 2010 vs 2012RC. – Selfdeceit

Can you compare the project file before and after opening it on VS2012 to check for modifications? – Speculative

there's an article about the deploy problem may be similar to this, please take a look at it and try to use VS 2012 Update 1 please: reference – Iconoclasm

I'd make the move to VS2012 SP2 now.. – Broadleaf

I think creating a new publish profile can solve the problem, give it a try. – Singlephase

Answer 1

Your question is quite old. I propose installing not RC, but final VS and to the newest update - ms guys fixed a bunch of problems.

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