Can't publish Azure Function

Question

I have created a new Azure function which references a few of my other projects in my solution. Then I Try to publish my function to Azure by using visual studio and I get the following errors:

 Publish Started
  Backend.Core -> C:\Projects\Backend.Core\bin\Release\Backend.Core.dll
  Backend.EntityFramework -> C:\Projects\Backend.EntityFramework\bin\Backend.EntityFramework.dll
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets(4368,5): error : The value for PublishProfile is set to 'State-Persistance-Handler - Web Deploy', expected to find the file at 'C:\Projects\Backend.EntityFramework\Properties\PublishProfiles\State-Persistance-Handler - Web Deploy.pubxml' but it could not be found. [C:\Projects\Backend.EntityFramework\Backend.EntityFramework.csproj]
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets(4375,4): error : PublishProfile(State-Persistance-Handler - Web Deploy) is set. But the $(WebPublishMethod) does not have a valid value.  Current Value is "". [C:\Projects\Backend.EntityFramework\Backend.EntityFramework.csproj]
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets(4382,5): error : Target ValidatePublishProfileSettings Failed [C:\Projects\Backend.EntityFramework\Backend.EntityFramework.csproj]

For some reason it looks somewhere else for the publish profile. I have no clue how this can be. Unfortunately I don't really have more information then this...

Any help is appreciated!

I am using Visual studio community 2017, Version 15.5.6

Answer 1

It looks like the file for the web publish profile is missing, try running through the publish setup from the start and see if that fixes your problem.