How to install Windows Azure Tools 2.9 and find the targets files without installing Visual Studio 2019

Question

Hello team,

Good Day!

This is in regards to the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2019.
We are working on creating CI/CD pipelines for our project which uses Azure Cloud Service (Classic): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-services/cloud-services-choose-me

While building the application using Visual Studio 2019, application build properly. As all the Azure tools are installed automatically using Visual Studio.

But when using the commands to build using msbuild for CI/CD, it fails due to not able to find below yellow highlighted line file i.e. Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Target file

It seems like this file comes as part of Visual Studio. But for creating CI/CD pipeline, please help with below queries.

1. How to install the Windows Azure Tools 2.9 without installing Visual Studio 2019
2. From where to get these target files for CI/CD. Would this file comes as part of point 1 when we install Windows Azure Tools 2.9 Please help with detailed information.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

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