I am developing with Azure storage locally using VS2015. I created and accessed my development storage blob container fine. I upload three images and have code to calculate the size of the images.
For some unknown reason, I cannot expand the Blob Containers node in Cloud Explorer any more. I.e. Cloud explorer > Storage Accounts > (Development) > Blob Containers. Doing so results in the following error message:
Cloud Explorer has encountered an unexpected error: Unable to retrieve
child resources.
It has been working fine in the past, so not sure what's changed. I know there are containers inside and I can seemly create one but then it doesn't show up in the list.
It works for live Azure storage accounts but not development.
Though I can still write code against this Development container - so it's there and functional but Cloud Explorer just not listing the containers i.e. no access to view files / upload file through VS UI.
Here are my steps to resolve
Uninstall Cloud Explorer via Extensions and Updates
Restart VS
Update the Cloud Explorer in Extensions and Updates (that apparently wasn't uninstalled)
Experience the catastrophic behaviour (very slow)
Restart VS
Fixed (seemingly)
Look into Extensions and Updates to see Cloud Explorer is disabled
Everything is fixed.
Update (29/07/2018)
If you are having trouble launching Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer (Development) e.g. blob storage and get the error message "Unable to retrieve child resources" followed by details of "A network error occurred...ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:10002" then simply (install and) run the Azure Storage Emulator.
The aforementioned solution didn't work for me.
The error went away after upgrading to Azure SDK 3.0 (using web platform installer). After that I am able to expand the child resources in App Services, and attach the debugger.
Another option that worked was using the Server Explorer to expand files/attach the debugger, but that option seems to have been turned off in 3.0.
The name of the Storage Account Name is case sensitive to teh azure service. The client however is not.
Because of this you can connect, but when the Storage Explorer tries to enumerate the child object it will fail if the Storage Account is not entered with the proper case.
I got this error when my system-clock was accidentally set a couple of hours back in time. Just saying.
Related
We have been using Google Cloud Transfer to move files from Azure Storage to Google Cloud Storage on production. The transfer stopped working recently (with error message permission denied) and no new transfer from this source is working. We noticed that Google again displays the tag "beta" next to the Microsoft Azure Storage Container option (despite the fact that according to their logs it went to General Acess in July 2020).
Does anybody else experience the same issue?
I was not able to find any official or unofficial information about this issue.
How to fix this bug?
Open Cloud Explorer (logged in)
Open "Files" folder for some Azure Web App (former Azure Website)
Result:
Cloud Explorer has encountered an unexpected error: Unable to retrieve
child resources.
Details: 'Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject' does not contain a definition
for 'requestNamespace'
I'm using:
Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2015 Version 14.0.25431.01 Update 3
Azure App Service Tools v2.9.6 14.0.21111.0
Common Azure Tools 1.8
Microsoft Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 - v2.9.41104.6
I had this problem and it was a permissions issue, mine was with a Cosmos Document DB database node.
I had my DevOps guy add me as a contributor to the IAM Azure role and it started working for me. So check all the permissions, and it is the cloud so sometimes you have to give it time to propagate the changes too.
I had this issue when both Azure Storage Emulator and Azure Storage Explorer trying to run at the same time. Try uninstall one or run only one at a time to solve the issue.
Have a look at troubleshooting guide might also help.
I've just created my first remote app. I choosed my own application .exe file from my desktop and it has been published. Then i connect by Azure connect program and saw my app icon there, unfortunately there was some error when wanted to lunch it. I think the problem is because my program requires also some .dll libraries to be attached and published with this .exe. However i have no idea how to add them to already published app. Can you please tell me how can i do that? Second case - i suppose this published app using storage - how can i check which storage (i have only one already) has been associate with this app and alternatively how to switch to new storage i just created?
If I understand correctly you want to update a custom application published to Azure RemoteApp.
According to Azure RemoteApp documentation:
if you are using a custom image (either that you built from scratch or
that you created by modifying one of our images), you are in charge of
maintaining the image and apps.1
You can follow below steps to update your app:
Create a VM using the image from which you have created the RemoteApp Collection. You'll find your custom application on the newly created VM.
Update your custom application.
Create a new image of the VM.
Update RemoteApp with the new image. Steps for updating the RemoteApp Collection
At the moment Azure RemoteApps does not support updating the custom apps without having to update the server image.
As far as your issue with Storage is concerned, you have to check the Storage account connection string which is used in the application code.
I am trying to deploy a large web site to Azure as a Web Role. However, Azure on the Instances tab of the Azure dashboard, it tells me it suffers an error during start up, causing it to restart over and over again.
Where can I find log files that will tell me what specifically is going wrong? The manage.windowsazure.com site doesn't seem to have any.
First, debug on your dev machine. Make sure you deployed the right .cscfg file, you don't have any broken connection strings, you're referencing the right version of the DLLs (the same as Azure's VMs) or are copying newer versions to Azure. If those fail, read this topic on WindowsAzure.com and the topics in this node on MSDN. The Hello World code sample also has a basic demonstration of diagnostics that should be helpful.
The basics of diagnostics in Windows Azure:
Must be manually enabled for each role by importing the Diagnostics module in your ServiceDefinition.csdef file
A storage location needs to be configured for the resulting logs in your ServiceConfiguration.cscfg file, such as the storage emulator, or a Windows Azure Storage account. Depending on the types of logs, they are stored in either blobs or tables.
You can either configure diagnostics collection programmatically or with a file that is read when your role starts and can be updated on-the-fly
You can set up and control how often diagnostics data is downloaded to your storage account (important because transactions/transfer/storage costs money), performance counters, or other metrics you need
There are a series of 4 blog posts at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kwill/archive/2013/08/09/windows-azure-paas-compute-diagnostics-data.aspx which will walk you through step by step how to troubleshoot a role startup failure including log file locations, etc.
I have created my first app for azure. It's has an MVC3 web role which writes some data to table storage.
It also has a worker role that does some work behind the scenes to the same data.
It all works fine in the emulator.
I've uploaded it all to Azure as a staging deployment, the hosted service it is reports all roles as "ready". The health for all roles is "healthy", though the worker role appears to crash and goes to "degraded" and then resets itself (I assume this is what is happening).
So what now? I have found a "DNS Name" on my Web Role in the form "http://{guid}.cloudapp.net/"
Clicking on that link just gives me a network access error, http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ can't find it either.
What am I missing? Where can I see diagnostics similar to the emulator? I've set "Enable Diagnostics" to use my Azure storage account in each role. How do I get into the storage to see if it has traced anything? Can this be done through the Management Portal?
I've tried searching through MSDN, but I can't find a page that says "and then you click the DNS name link and your website will launch. I'm sure there is a lovely page like that but I can't find it.
thanks in advance!
In August 2011, the Windows Azure role templates were updated to work with the ASP.NET Universal Providers. As such, when you create a new project, the session state provider is backed by SQL Express by default. If you don't change this to SQL Azure or Cache (or disable session state), you'll run into issues.
I'm not sure this is exactly the issue you're running into, but it's a common one. See Nate Totten's blog post for more information about this (Nate calls out this issue a few pages down, under IMPORTANT NOTE).
You can access diagnostics data directly from Visual Studio Server Explorer.
Here you have all necessary information: Browsing Storage Resources with Server Explorer http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ff683677.aspx
Personally I use Azure Diagnostics Manager from Cerebrata http://www.cerebrata.com/products/AzureDiagnosticsManager/ that is easy and has a good dashboard