Does anybody knows how can I make a Fucntional test of a blob?
In my Controller I have a POST method, and I need to test this function but at the internet I didn´t find anything
You probably don't want to test the blob service since that's an external service. If you want to test your implementation of using that service, have a look at using a Fake or Mock.
Another solution might be to Use the Azure storage emulator for development and testing.
The Microsoft Azure storage emulator provides a local environment that emulates the Azure Blob, Queue, and Table services for development purposes. Using the storage emulator, you can test your application against the storage services locally, without creating an Azure subscription or incurring any costs. When you're satisfied with how your application is working in the emulator, you can switch to using an Azure storage account in the cloud.
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Is there a way to test the Azure Search in local development environment? Without actually connecting to Azure. That would work offline.
I'm thinking of a something like the Azure Storage emulator.
There is a simulator published here - https://github.com/simonedeponti/AzureSearchEmulator which exposes REST APIs, which can help you test it on your local.
Azure Web Jobs are a big time saver in that they solve the plumbing of triggers, continuous running, dashboard, etc. But I've only seen them run in Web sites. It'd be great to be able to move them to a Worker Role. Do you have suggestions about how to do it?
I'd personally love to see how they implement it, so that I can replicate it in my worker role, without reinventing the wheel...
The answer to the main question is No Azure WebJobs are part of Azure Websites and only run in an Azure Website context/host.
But Azure WebJobs SDK which is an SDK that allows you to write code that is triggered on Azure storage blobs/queues and Azure service bus queues including some great logging capabilities, can be used outside of Azure WebJobs and so they can run anywhere (locally, VMs, WebRoles).
It is important to understand that Azure WebJobs are a framework that is part of Azure Websites that allows (almost) any console application (and .bat, .php, .js, ... scripts) to run continuously or triggered (manually/scheduled).
WebJobs SDK and WebJobs are not dependent on each other although they work great together.
Also to see how it's implemented go to https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu as it's open sourced (for now The WebJobs part, SDK may be open sourced in the future).
Yes, you can use Azure WebJobs outside of Azure Web Sites. You use the Azure WebJobs SDK to do so. There is a sample on MSDN on how to use the SDK in an console app. It then goes on to host it in a web site, but you can of course host it in other ways. There is another article, "Hosting Azure webjobs outside Azure, with the logging benefits from an Azure hosted webjob" that explicitly talks about using WebJobs outside of Azure. With a little work this should work in a Worker role as well.
I'll stipulate that I've not actually done this myself, but the SDK does make it possible.
I'd also recommend this treasure trove of resources for WebJobs.
Just deployed my App to Azure. Everything works fine.
I'm currently running some legacy code on my app that I cannot upgrade right now, and it makes use of some files on the local VM Storage.
I need to find a way to keep all the cloud instances folder synced. Someone wrote a plugin that seems to do this using the Microsoft Sync Framework, but it runs on Azure SDK 1.5:
https://github.com/Interop-Bridges/Windows-Azure-File-System-Durability-Plugin
Does anyone know of a similar implementation for the current version of the SDK? or a better solution for this scenario?
You could use the CloudDrive feature of Windows Azure. You can put a .VHD file into the blob storage and mount it as a drive in your compute service.
But keep in mind that if you have multiple instance in your computing service, only one instance has read/write access to the VHD. You should share the VHD Drive among all your instances using standard network share technology.
I have several web and worker roles in my solution, but I also have a non-Azure application running on a Azure hosted VM. That application connects to Azure storage for various things like reading and writing blobs and queues, and that works fine.
I'd like to use Azure diagnostics from within that same application (a .NET app running on a VM hosted in Azure). However, if I try to initialize diagnostics I get an exception that:
System.InvalidOperationException: Not running in a hosted service or the Development Fabric.
This makes sense, but I'm wondering if it's possible to use the diagnostics in some way without being a hosted service. In particular, I'm using azure diagnostics to gather logging information, written out by System.Diagnostics.Trace, and that's all hidden away from the application code, so if there were some other APIs I have a place I can probably slot that in.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
JC
Unfortunately, no. At least not today. The agent has some hard-coded checks for the RoleEnvironment stuff and when it is not there, it fails. This is also the reason you cannot use the agent in the IaaS stuff today either.
I have a webrole I'd like to host in IIS for the time being.
Does anyone know how involved this is, considering that I still want Azure Storage functions of the IIS site to still work?
Azure Storage (tables, blobs, queues) only run on the actual Windows Azure environment in the cloud. There is a simulated development environment that runs a facsimile on a local SQL Server database, but that is only meant for development purposes and cannot be used for running an actual site.
Theoretically, you could run your webapp locally and connect to Azure Storage over the internet (e.g. by using the REST api), but latency would almost certainly be too high for any interactive site.
So, if you want to be able to run your site on premise on your own IIS environment, you will need to remove all the specific Azure platform dependencies and build in non-Azure alternatives. For Azure Storage, you could either do a relational database (SQL Server, mySQL) or look at a nosql/document database.
If you want to move it to IIS then tijmedvdk's answer is correct.
If your goal is to run it in your data center then you should consider Azure Appliance http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/appliance/ this allows you to run Azure applications on premise, without making any changes.
This answers seems misleading. Windows Azure is a platform that provides several services and you can choose from the services that you want to use.
In essence a Windows Azure is just a Virtual Machine with
*Windows Server 2008 R2
*IIS 7.5
So can if you have an application that you are currently hosting in Azure and you want to host it in IIS I don't see much of a problem there.
If you are using Storage, the only problem might be that the Storage account settings were in the WebRole or Service configuration files, but you can change your app logic to take the appropiate settings from other config files.
I have created Windows Desktop applications that for several reasons use Azure Storage and i also think of that as a great advantage of cloud computing.