Windows Azure could not find the resource UploadStorage in the service package

Question

Starting with the new version (1.7) of Azure Tools I got the fatal error "Windows Azure could not find the resource UploadStorage in the service package" during deployment from visualstudio. The project was deploying under the previous version without error.

Answer 1

Are you using VS 2010 or VS 2012? If you have a previous installation of Windows Azure SDK, try to remove it completely and install the new SDK.

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Answer 2

Are you redeploying the same package using 1.7 version that you had deployed using the previous version fo Azure tools? The problem, I suspect, is that the hosted service you are deploying to has an existing deployment containing a Local resource called "UploadStorage'. This resource is missing in the new package which you are deploying to the same hosted service. Can you check if this is the case? One thing which you can try is to deploy this new package to a hosted service which does not contain any existing deployment.

Answer 3

I had the same problem. I created a local storage whose name couldn't be used as an Azure blob container. So I renamed the local storage and started getting the error.

I had to delete the deployment and then republish.