The target “ResolveWebJobFiles” does not exist in the project in Azure Website

Question

I have a Windows Azure project consisting of

• ASP.NET project (using NancyFX) deployed as Azure Website
• Business Logic class library
• Unit test class library
• 2 Console apps

I want those 2 console app to be deployed as Azure WebJobs with the Azure Website. So I right clikec on the ASP.NET project and chose Add | Existing project as Azure WebJob and added both console apps with the right schedule.

Everything seems fine, the 2 console apps now contain a JSON with schedule and the ASP.NET project contains a JSON with WebJobs definition. All the project build just fine.

The problem is, when I try to deploy the ASP.NET project to Azure, I get

The target “ResolveWebJobFiles” does not exist in the project 

I found this article when the author solved this problem by adding

<Import Project="..\packages\Microsoft.Web.WebJobs.Publish.1.0.2\tools\webjobs.targets" Condition="Exists('..\packages\Microsoft.Web.WebJobs.Publish.1.0.2\tools\webjobs.targets')" /> 

to his csproj file, but my csproj file for the ASP.NET project already contains this import.

Any ideas what the problem is?

Answer 1

even i faced this issue. I reinstalled the below package in my webjob to solve it

package id="Microsoft.Web.WebJobs.Publish" version="1.0.2"

Answer 2

Check to see if you have this file in your webjob project Properties folder: webjob-publish-settings.json

If not, create it with this content, changing only the webJobName (for now)

{   "$schema": "http://schemastore.org/schemas/json/webjob-publish-settings.json",   "webJobName": "MyWebJobName",   "startTime": "2014-12-09T00:00:00-08:00",   "jobRecurrenceFrequency": "Hour",   "interval": 1,   "runMode": "Scheduled",   "stopping_wait_time": 3600 }