Service Fabric & VSTS: ##[error]Exception while parsing XML file: ... ApplicationManifest.xml
Quite frustrating issue - we built our solution just fine in Visual Studio, but as our Visual Studio Team Services instance were to deploy to Azure, it stumbled upon the ApplicationManifest.xml, saying that it had an exception parsing the document (and not much else). This is how we fixed it: Unload the service fabric project (.sfproj) Edit it Add AddCorrelationIds=false-attributes in the Globals Property Group: Commit! Push! Deploy! ;-D Thanks to Nick Randell for posting his findings at https://github.com/Azure/service-fabric-issues/issues/209 and to Kenneth Winner for clarifying some details!