Deployment to Azure, publishing a package using TFS Team Build. Workspace value being null issue.

Hi All,

I am setting up continuous deployment for Cloud Services in Windows Azure, with publishing a package using TFS Team Build.

I followed all steps described in the following link:

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-dotnet-continuous-delivery/#step5.

Created a build process template, based on a default one (TfvcTemplate.12.xaml).

Unfortunately, once I run a build, it fails at "Convert publish script filename" step with the following exception:

Exception Message: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: Workspace (type ArgumentNullException)
Exception Stack Trace:    at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.Activities.ConvertWorkspaceItem.Execute(CodeActivityContext context)
   at System.Activities.CodeActivity`1.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager)
   at System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager, Location resultLocation)

I assume it is a problem to do with Workspace not being instantiated anywhere in the process template. As documentation is written a while ago it possibly can be that my default template does not hold Workspace reference any more. I tried to manually instantiate it with CreateWorkspace and GetWorkspace activities but no luck. Gives me more exceptions.

Again, the image in the article I followed contains the image, which has BuildAgent and Workspace variables defined (#5.3). But there is no mentioning about them in the article...

Is there any solution for this case?

Thank you in advance.