Some assemblies are not included when deploying Azure websites from Visual Studio 2013

Question

I have a Visual Studio 2013 class library project, a directory structure like this:

\MyClassLibraryProject \ExternalLibraries 3rdPartyLib.dll \bin \Debug \Release etc. 

Inside the ExternalLibraries, I copied some third-party assemblies, which I then referenced in the project (Copy local = true). I will compile the project and in my Release directory, of course, I see MyClassLibraryProject.dll and third-party DLLs such as 3rdPartyLib.dll, etc. Still good.

Then I have another project (Console app - Azure webjob) from which I add a link to \ MyClassLibraryProject \ bin \ Release \ MyClassLibraryProject.dll (Copy local = true). It looks like this:

 \MyWebjob \bin \Debug MyWebJob.exe MyClassLibraryProject.dll 3rdPartyLib.dll 

So, as you can see, when I added a link to MyClassLibraryProject.dll (with Copy local = true), it also copied its dependent assembly 3rdPartyLib.dll. Okay bye.

However, when publishing a webjob project for Azure (right-click Project, Publish ...). 3PartyLib.dll is not deployed. As a result, the webjobs toolbar complains that it cannot be found and, of course, the website is not running.

Is this user error or something else?

Answer 1

This is problem. You need to manually deploy or add dependencies to the webjob via nuget.

Look at it. Corresponding dependencies (DLLs) are not copied when deployed using Visual Studio 2013.