Release not detecting release variables

[cordialamit]

Hi,

I am trying to use this to upload appsettings to azure webapp but it always reports that no settings found in VSTS variables and webapp:

2017-01-26T00:43:40.1733955Z ##[debug]Read-Variables-From-VSTS
2017-01-26T00:43:40.1890137Z ##[debug]Found 0 variables. Variable Values
2017-01-26T00:43:53.5330237Z ##[debug]Read-Settings-From-WebApp
2017-01-26T00:43:53.5486441Z ##[debug]Reading configuration from website ****-gated in resourcegroup ***resource
2017-01-26T00:43:55.1160977Z ##[debug]Fetch appsettings
2017-01-26T00:43:55.1160977Z ##[debug]appsettings: 0

[pascalnaber]

Do you have variables in VSTS with the correct namingconvention, please a screenshot? and do you have appsettings or connectionstrings in your web.config also (which you have selected in the configuration of the task)?

[sandeeppnaik]

I am facing a similar problem. Just to make sure there are no typos, I tried to just update one app setting. E.g. My env variable is set to app.setting.appName. Web.config has the appsetting : appName. I get the following message :
##[debug]Finished reading config file
##[debug]Read-Variables-From-VSTS
##[debug]Found 0 variables. Variable Values
##[warning]Cannot find VSTS variable with name [appsetting.appName]. But the key does exist in the web.config

[pascalnaber]

Strange. I'm using the task myself and other people on many projects I know. So I assume there is something you do that is not supported by the task. Do you have a sample solution that shows this behavior also? (with a screenshot of the variables in VSTS). I don't know any other way to help you.