Set Up an Existing Application to Publish to an Azure web app

You can set up an existing application with a publishing profile. You do not have to link your project to Azure at the time of creation (as shown in Figure 12.7). For example, suppose you have an existing application, as shown in the Solution Explorer inside Figure 12.17. Notice there is no publishing profile associated with the solution (as compared to Figure 12.10).

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FIGURE 12.17 An existing Visual Studio web application without a publishing profile.

To get started, you simply right-click the application in Solution Explorer and choose Publish. This brings up the Publish Web Wizard, ...

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