I can not deploy or debug SharePoint Online Apps (Auto-hosted or Provider Hosted)

I have an Office 365 developer account

My App is Default Asp.net MVC 4 Auto-hosted

When press F5 to Debug the dialog to input my email and password opens and then opens my developer site but doesn't deploy my app

In output window

Skipping deployment step because a pre-deployment command is not specified

  • What's in your app? You cannot debug certain things, workflows and event receivers, for example. – wjervis May 27 '14 at 12:41
  • default ASP.NET MVC 4 (Auto-hosted app) – eaam May 27 '14 at 12:44
  • You need to provide more details about what you are doing, what goes wrong, and what your app does for us to have the slightest chance of helping you – Robert Lindgren May 27 '14 at 13:45
  • What happens when you debug? If it's not getting deployed, check the output in Visual Studio, it should say why it's not getting deployed. – wjervis May 27 '14 at 17:59

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