Although I fully recommend using Application Insights (see here) for monitoring your Azure features, I get asked sometimes how to configure log4net onto an Azure App Service. So, this is how I did it. Install the log4net.dll binary using NuGet Configure the log4net name, type properties in the web.config Configure the log4net properties Modify the […]
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I successfully created and published my first NuGet package that included a .NET Standard class library here. It is nothing specifically awesome but it’s pretty cool, simple and something I have never done before. I simply executed this msbuild command on my .NET Standard class library and it built the package for me. msbuild CSharpProjectName.csproj […]
Read More →I originally downloaded and installed the 2.0.0-download.md version of the .NET Core SDK and Runtime from GitHub here. The mistake I made was to install the SDK Installer for the bit of my Visual Studio instead of my OS. I am running a 32bit version of Visual Studio on 64bit version of windows. I was […]
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The release of .NET Standard has been officially announced here. I looked for a way to update .NET Standard to version 2.0 as I could see it was not installed on my workstation. As shown in Figure 1, I only had version 1.0 – 1.6 installed. Figure 1, how to upgrade, install new version of […]
Read More →The release of .NET Core has been officially announced here. I looked for a way to update .NET Core to version 2.0 as I could see it was not installed on my workstation. As shown in Figure 1, I only had version 1.0 and 1.1 installed. Figure 1, how to upgrade, install new version of […]
Read More →I was deploying an ASP.NET Web API to an Azure App Service Web App and I got this error: Server Error in ‘/’ Application. A route named ‘HelpPage_Default’ is already in the route collection. Route names must be unique. Parameter name: name Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. […]
Read More →I was creating an ASP.NET Web API today and when I called one of the Web APIs (/api/values) I got the following response: {“Message”:”Authorization has been denied for this request.”} It turns out by default ‘Individual User Accounts” authentication is enabled by default. See Figure 1. Figure 1, {“Message”:”Authorization has been denied for this request.”} […]
Read More →I wrote an article here which talk about how to make an app setting or connection string sticky to the slot. You can make the settings stick using Azure PowerShell. Here are the Azure PowerShell cmdlets required to create an Azure App Service Web App: Login-AzureRmAccount Set-AzureRmContext Set-AzureWebsite (also have a look here at the […]
Read More →Consider you have an Azure App Service Web App that handles a large amount of traffic and accesses a database, with an architecture similar to that shown in Figure 1. When you make a deployment you would not want to take the risk of deploying bugs or having significant downtime when you deploy a new […]
Read More →There are 3 kinds of files that an Azure App Service can deal with: Persisted Files Temporary Files Machine Level read-only files What does those mean and what can they be used for? Persisted Files These files are rooted in the D:\home path. The contents of these files are shared between all the multiple instances […]
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