TFS 2015 Visual Studio Build - Package .zip not being created

Question

I\'m trying to build my solution and package up the web app into a web deploy (.zip) package to be deployed.

I\'ve added the Visual Studio Build ste

Answer 1

I have tried the same on VS2015 MVC web application using VSTS and TFS 2015.2.1 both. I had to do a slight change to the Build arguments in Visual Studio build. That is removing the trailing "\" in /p:PackageLocation="$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)\".

Here is the argument I passed to Visual studio build step

/p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:WebPublishMethod=Package /p:PackageAsSingleFile=true /p:PackageLocation="$(build.artifactstagingdirectory)"

Then I used Copy and Published Build Artifacts (Deprecated in VSTS you should use Copy task and Publish task instead of this task) as shown below

This gives me output as below.