Azure Project Publish Profile Corrupt After Uploading to VSO

Question

When we create a Publish Profile (azurepubxml) for our Azure Projects (ccproj) and commit to VSO, we tend to get this error in VSO when viewing the file:

VSO Error when Viewing in Browser

This file contains non-printable characters and no other viewer was found for file extension "azurePubxml".

Click to download file to your computer.

Viewing AzurePubXML withinin VSO

Answer 1

After further review - there seems to be something in the TFS/VS IDE Tooling that corrupts the file during upload.

The fix is to perform the following steps:

1. Download the original publish profile locally
2. Delete the publish profile from VSO
3. Upload the downloaded file directly using VSO in the browser.

Not sure why this is occurring, but hopefully this helps someone else and short circuit time to resolve.