Visual Studio Tooling for Extended Support

Morné Zaayman 36

When packaging the application in Visual Studio, only the .cspkg and .cscfg files are generated. This was all that was required for Cloud Services (Classic). Cloud Services (Extended Support) also requires the .csdef file. How can we make Visual Studio also output the .csdef file alongside the other two?

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vipullag-MSFT 26,296 Reputation points

2022-02-22T06:44:31.06+00:00

@Morné Zaayman

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Platform, thanks for posting your query here.

When the packaging is done via visual studio, there is a .csdef file that gets generated, please trace the location as per the screenshot pasted below:

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Morné Zaayman 36 Reputation points

2022-02-22T06:53:28.93+00:00

Ok, so we have to go one folder back, as the file is not included in the app.publish folder. I did see it there, but seeing as the .csdef is a requirement now for Extended Support, should it not also be included in the app.publish folder together with the .cscfg and .cspkg files? It is messy having some files in one folder, and then others in another.

vipullag-MSFT 26,296 Reputation points

2022-02-24T16:19:38.393+00:00

@Morné Zaayman

Thanks for sharing the feedback.

Requesting you to please share this feedback in developer community web site here (to log feedback specific to Visual Studio) and it will get routed to the appropriate product team.
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