Visual Studio 2015 Publish WebJobs Issue

Question

Using the right-click, Publish as Azure WebJob... option in VisualStudio 2015, the job is published however the runMode seems to be ignored.

In my file, I have the following settings, however the job is continually set to an On Demand job in the portal after publishing:

{
  "$schema": "http://schemastore.org/schemas/json/webjob-publish-settings.json",
  "webJobName": "MyJob",
  "startTime": "2015-07-21T00:30:00-08:00",
  "endTime": null,
  "jobRecurrenceFrequency": "Day",
  "interval": 1,
  "runMode": "Scheduled"
}

Using Visual Studio 2015 with the Azure SDK for .NET 2.7

Here is the Error in the output windows after publishing Error : An error occurred while creating the WebJob schedule: Could not load type 'Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory.ActiveDirectoryAuthenticationException' from assembly 'Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory, Version=2.16.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'.

Answer 1

Based off of the error, the issue is that you must be logged into Cloud Explorer within Visual Studio for the job to be scheduled properly.

The job will still publish if you are not logged in, however it will only be available OnDemand.

Answer 2

On my case even though I'm already logged into Cloud Explorer I still get the same error.

I have the latest Azure SDK for .NET (VS 2015) installed as of writing. I had to update my NuGet package Microsoft.Web.WebJobs.Publish from version 1.0.2 to the latest version which is 1.0.10. NuGet Package Upgrade

Then finally the web job was published successfully!