Get a publish profile from Azure App Service

A publish profile is a file that contains information and settings that Visual Studio uses to deploy applications and services to Azure.

  1. In the Azure portal, open the Azure App Service.

  2. Make sure that Basic authentication is enabled. Go to Settings, Configuration, General settings, SCM Basic Auth Publishing Credentials, and choose On.

  3. Go to Download publish profile and save the profile locally.

    Screenshot showing how to get the publish profile from Azure App Service.

A file with a .publishsettings extension is generated in the location you specified.

See also Azure App Service.

Note

When basic authentication is disabled, Download publish profile and Reset publish profile are disabled.