What happened to Cloud Deployment Projects?

Question

According to https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-sdk-dotnet-release-notes-2_6/, Azure Cloud Deployment projects have been deprecated in favor of Azure Resource Group projects. After reading https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn872471.aspx as recommended in the release notes, I can't for the life of me figure out how to create a resource group project simply to publish to a cloud service.

What was simple before (adding an existing project as a "Role" under a cloud deployment project and then publishing using a easy to use GUI interface) has now been replaced with a powershell script that has no tutorials or indication on how to publish to an existing cloud service. I understand the potential benefits and flexibility this may have, but what about simple use cases such as myself?

If they had left support in for existing cloud deployment projects I would have no issue with the change, but now after updating to Azure SDK 2.7 I can no longer publish to my Azure Cloud Services.

Answer 1

Hi Ian,

What you are looking for in the SDK 2.6 or later is an "Azure Cloud Service" project. In your new project dialog, browse to Cloud and select the proper project.

Cloud Services through ARM is not supported yet, but you can still create your cloud service deployments the way you used to without problem.

Have a good one

Answer 2

Thank you very much s_lapointe!

This is exactly what I was looking for. The release notes were a little misleading in that it made it seem as the only way to deploy was to use the Azure Resource Group project. I have recreated my deployment project using an Azure Cloud Service and it works as expected.