An interface is like a contract. When a person signs a contract they are agreeing to perform in adherence to its’ contents. The person can take any action which is not specifically identified in the contract or build on top of the agreements within it. An interface has a similar concept. In this example I […]
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Deploy to an Azure App Service using KUDU and a zip file

I wrote this article about a KUDU feature that supports the dragging and dropping of files from a local workstation to your Azure App Service. It is also possible to drag and drop a compressed ZIP file and KUDU will automatically unzip the content of the file. This is describe here already, but I like […]
Read More →How to make a local deployment and create a zip file for drag and drop deployment

I wrote this article “Deploy to an Azure App Service using KUDU and a zip file” that explains how to deploy a zipped file from a local workstation to KUDU. While I was writing that post I thought, hey, why not write how to create a zipped file for deployment as well, so here goes. […]
Read More →How to capture an ASP.NET Core memory dump on Azure App Service

I have written numerous articles about ASP.NET and creating memory dumps, but noticed I had not written one specifically about capturing an ASP.NET Core memory dump on an Azure App Service. Here are some of my ‘related’ articles of this matter. Create a memory dump for your slow performing Web App How to take a […]
Read More →How to map an Azure App Service Web App virtual directory to Azure Storage Container

OK, so I tricked you…you can’t do what is said in the title, well I better not say you can’t because someone could possibly come up with a a way, but what I should say is that if you try to create a virtual directory in the portal as shown in Figure 1, that points […]
Read More →Failed to save Auth settings Easy Auth Azure Authentication

When I tried to configure a a URL into the ALLOWED EXTERNAL REDIRECT URLS text box, as shown in Figure 1, I received the following error. Failed to save Auth Settings for authenticated App: {"Code":"Conflict","Message":"Cannot update the site ‘******’ because Authentication / Authorization was configured with an invalid external redirect URL ‘***.***.***.***’. All configured URLs […]
Read More →Failed to update App Service Plan the sites exceed maximum number of slots

After some testing I wanted to scale down my 5 instances of Standard S3 plan machines and I got this error when scaling down to FREE: Failed to update App Service plan : {“Code”:”Conflict”,”Message”:”The site(s) ” exceed maximum number of slots allowed for the hosting plan. Remove all deployment slots before scaling to a different […]
Read More →500.79 Internal Server Error

I got this exception when I was trying to configure the Azure Active Directory authentication in Advance management mode for an Azure App Service. Basically, I was following the (Alternative Method) instructions described here. After following all the instructions, I was getting this exception, as shown in Figure 1. The page cannot be displayed because […]
Read More →How to install NuGet Package in Visual Studio Code Linux Ubuntu

I wrote this article about running Visual Studio Code on Linux here and wanted to now create a more complicated console app. To do this I wanted to install the Newtonsoft.Json NuGet Package. To open the console where the commands are added select View –> Integrated Terminal from the menu bar. I started with creating […]
Read More →Create a .NET Core 2 application on Linux with Visual Studio Code

The plan is to work some with Linux and I have chosen Ubuntu 16.04 LTS because this, AFAIK, is the flavor which Azure App Service Linux containers runs, see more about that here. I built my Ubuntu work station, by downloading the ISO from the Ubuntu site here and burning it to a DVD. Yes, […]
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