Publish to Azure in Visual Studio Community for Mac

Question

I created a brand new project in Visual Studio Community for Mac and got my Azure app service set up, ready to be deployed to. In Visual Studio, for some reason there is no publish option at all when I right click on the project itself. It is an MVC project, so this doesn't make a lot of sense. Is there something I need to do first?

Answer 1

Just use .Net Core Mvc App template. Somehow they made publishing only available for Core runtime. And it is not matter of Vs edition, works in Community as well.

Also: "Note that the .NET Core 2.0 SDK needs to be installed via a separate download to enable .NET Core 2.0 development in Visual Studio 2017 for Mac Version 7.1." https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2017-mac-relnotes

Answer 2

You'll need Visual Studio for Mac Professional. I had the same problem, then I signed in using my work MSDN account. As soon as it registered, I was able to right click on the project and 'Publish to Azure' showed up.