Azure Cloud Service (web role) publishing from Visual Studio 2012 failed with Null Reference exception

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Azure Cloud Service (web role) publishing from Visual Studio 2012 failed with Null Reference exception. I got the following log at Output window:

12:44:26 PM - Preparing deployment for xxx - 4/4/2013 12:43:22 PM with Subscription ID 'xxx' using Service Management URL 'https://management.core.windows.net/'... 12:44:26 PM - Connecting... 12:44:27 PM - Object reference not set to an instance of an object. 12:44:27 PM - Deployment failed with a fatal error

facts: 1. SSL certificate is used 2. local iis installed and started 3. no tag is defined in web.config 4. manual deployment at manage.windowsazure.com works just fine

Please advise, Alex

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1 Answers

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Make sure you upload the SSL certificate into the Azure Admin Portal before you do the deploy. I had this exact problem last week, and that was the issue.