I plan to use two websites in a single web role. Ref: MSDN.
I can do it easily when Web Poject source code. However I need to install Orchard & Magelia (shopping cart) together. They are available as deployment package.
Q.1. Can I wrap deployment package into azure solution?
Q.2. If not, should I download source code of orchard & Magelia then publish? I wonder how other community members are working on this !
Related question here on codeplex.
Copy binary published package via FTP to azure website.
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I am trying to properly install Azure SDK, reference it and build an application based on it.
Firstly, I am not sure if I need to install Azure SDK on top of what comes with Visual Studio 2015.
Secondly, when I visit the following url, I fall into a "rabbit hole":
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/dotnet-sdk/
… it refers me to a bunch of fragmented installs here:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/
…. When I choose “Client libraries” in above url I get the following options: more than 100 of them!! :
https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=windowsazureofficial
My application needs to use Azure Service Bus and Azure storage. How do I determine what exactly is required and what is the best way to find and install them?
With a number of fragmented packages, I think there should be a flow chart help me to determine the packages required.
Thank you,
i would suggest you to use Web Platform Installer instead of direct download this-and-that package. WPI is much more convenient, and it installs everything needed.
For Azure SB, you will need NuGet package.
For Azure Storage, if you need to test it against your local storage first instead of trying to connect to the Azure one, you can install Azure SDK using Web Platform Installer - it will install you the Azure Storage Emulator. Details.
Azure SDK, however, is a very useful piece of software when developing for the Azure.
My application needs to use Azure Service Bus and Azure storage. How
do I determine what exactly is required and what is the best way to
find and install them?
If all you need is client libraries for Azure Service Bus and Azure Storage, you can download appropriate Nuget packages from here:
Azure Storage: http://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.Storage/
Azure Service Bus: http://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.ServiceBus/
If there're other packages you would need, simply search for those on Nuget's website. For example, if I need Azure AD .Net library, I would simply search for Azure Active Directory.
For Azure Storage, there's a local storage emulator that gets installed along with the SDK. However you can download just the storage emulator from here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/?sdk=net (search for Azure Storage Emulator on this page).
Please note that there's no local service bus emulator at this point of time.
A Note About SDK
Azure SDK is pretty comprehensive (so is Azure) and includes tools and libraries for you to build and manage different kinds of applications that can be deployed in Azure. As Alex mentioned in his answer, going down Web Platform Installer is the easiest as it installs everything for you that is included in the SDK.
However you can also pick the components of SDK based on your project's requirements and install them individually. For example, when you go to this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51657, you will see all the components that constitute SDK 2.9. On this page, when you click download button you will be able to select components that want to download based on your project's requirements.
I'm following the procedure to create a Xamarin app with a mobile app backend in Azure.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-service-mobile-dotnet-backend-xamarin-android-get-started-preview/
I've create the mobile app in the portal and downloaded the backend runtime and xamarin solutions. When I try to publish the backend runtime, the instructions indicate that the one I just created should show up 'Existing Web Apps'. Mine shows nothing.
My questions are:
1) How can I troubleshoot what shows up in the 'Existing Web Apps'?
2) Is it reasonable to just create a new web app from the VS Publish dialog?
3) If not, where should I place the publish profile that I can download from the azure portal?
Regards,
Rajesh
1.a. Ensure you're using the right azure suscription from VS
1.b. Logout and add your subscription login again
Yes it's reasonable
You can put it wherever you want. From VS website project goto publish settings
4. Then select import
5.And Finally browse the publish settings file
I have had issues with Visual Studio finding the existing apps. I tend to download the publish settings and use that instead. This works fine.
Alternatively, create a git repository and check the code into the git repository. Check out this article for instructions: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-publish-source-control/
Personally, I post my code to a branch of my git repository on GitHub and link the continuous deployment option of the Azure App Service to that. You can find my blog about this topic here: http://shellmonger.com/2015/08/29/continuous-deployment-nodejs-and-microsoft-azure/ - it's for NodeJS but the concept and methodology is the same.
I created a website in the Azure portal, but now I can't find out how to import this into a TFS project. I have visual studio 2013. They seem completely disconnected in terms of importing a project from what the Azure portal creates. Thanks!
Jerelo - the way you solve your issue depends what type of website you deployed and how it was deployed originally. Many of the pre-baked Website images for items like Drupal or Wordpess are not designed to be imported into TFS and auto-deployed.
You would need to download your files via FTP (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaushal/archive/2014/08/02/microsoft-azure-web-site-connect-to-your-site-via-ftp-and-upload-download-files.aspx) and then setup source-control deployments by selecting the "Set up deployment from source control" option in the Portal.
Visual Studio Online is the only TFS source you'll be able to use right now, otherwise you have Dropbox, Git or Mercurial deployments Detailed options are listed here: https://github.com/Azure/azure-content/blob/master/articles/web-sites-deploy.md
I have a C# ASP.Net MVC4 Web Role deployed on Windows Azure Cloud Services using Package and Publish. First time it uploaded entire package and site has been running fine. When I wanted to publish the next set of changes, the Publish option is trying to upload the entire package again.
I have already configured Remote Desktop and Web Deploy and also enabled incremental updates as per guidelines stated in the article Publishing a Cloud Service using the Windows Azure Tools.
But this seems to be not working and Publish is trying to upload entire package again and again. Has anybody faced this issue and come up with any fix?
Nope.
currently there is no out-of-the-box solution to support incremental changes deploy.
When working with Cloud Services I highly suggest that you do not use Web Deploy for anything else than development/testing. The reason is that all changes made via web-deploy and any other non-full-package-upload process will be wiped out as soon as an instance in being recycled/healed.
I've been working on a project to allow rolling out partial changes. Unfortunately it only supports update to the "bin" folder currently. You can take a look at this project here. It is a good starting point at least.
For quick publish incremental changes to development environment (Not recommended for Production), check - Speed Up Azure Deployments with the New Web Deployment Feature.
In VS2013, choose 'Deploy' from the context menu of the Web App project which is referenced by the role (and not the 'Cloud Service' project referencing the role(s) ... doing that will publish the whole service and all of its roles non-incrementally).
There should be a 'publish profile' which refers to the website on the *.cloudapp.net platform. If there is, it was put there by Visual Studio ... probably when you first ticked the 'Enable Web Deploy for all web roles' check-box when first deploying the service.
However, it might not be there, or be wrong. Because, for example, Visual Studio is dumb, and noticing that you had already published the Web App as a 'Web Site' (before you decided to incorporate it as a 'Web Role' in a service), it decided to leave the existing entry for *.azurewebsites.net alone. Or is it because that project was only included in the role as an <VirtualApplication /> element in the service definition's XML, and Visual Studio just neglected to create it?
So you'll have to find some way to force Visual Studio to re-create the right profile for you, or you'll have to manually copy and edit the publishing profile XML files from a known good source (Properties/PublishProfiles directory under the project root), or just guess the settings from absent documentation.
Those settings will be something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="12.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
<PropertyGroup>
<WebPublishMethod>MSDeploy</WebPublishMethod>
<MSDeployServiceURL>https://MYAPP.cloudapp.net:8172/MsDeploy.axd</MSDeployServiceURL>
<DeployIisAppPath>INSTANCE</DeployIisAppPath>
<RemoteSitePhysicalPath />
<AllowUntrustedCertificate>True</AllowUntrustedCertificate>
<SkipExtraFilesOnServer>True</SkipExtraFilesOnServer>
<DeployAsIisApp>False</DeployAsIisApp>
<MSDeployPublishMethod>WMSVC</MSDeployPublishMethod>
<UserName>MYUSER</UserName>
</PropertyGroup>
</Project>
Where:
MYAPP - is the domain name of the deployed Azure service
INSTANCE - is the name of the instance you want to update (get it from Server Explorer ... it's the 'Name' property of the 'Instance' under your service ... or get it from the list of instances comprising your service from the Windows Azure management dashboard).
MYUSER - is the name of the user you set up when publishing initially, for the Remote Desktop Services
Does anyone know if Aptana Studio 3 can integrate directly with Azure cloud hosting like it does with Heroku or Engine Yard? Want to avoid the GitHub option if possible as public account.
From the official site for Aptana Studio 3 I see that it supports FTP as a standard publishing method.
You can use this method (ftp) to Deploy your application to Windows Azure Web Sites. And here is a quick tutorial on how to publish to Azure Web Sites using FTP. It will guide you through the process of creating deployment credentials and how to get the FTP site address.
I have been looking at other IDE solutions and recently came across PHPStorm - it has ftp, SVN and Azure integration as standard (amongst others) so am going to stick with it and because it's also an excellent code editor. Happy days!