This would apply to Azure App Services too. This is an interesting feature. To me it resembles or provides the ability to force tunnel. The implementations of forced tunneling I have seen have typically been configured using route tables. Where the route table is a matrix of IP addresses (see Figure 6) that instructs TCP […]
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The scenarios in which you can and cannot move an Azure App Service are nicely documented here “App Service limitations”. I also wrote an article about this as well here “Moving an Azure App Service”. It is possible to move your Azure App Service between subscriptions and resource groups. Like I have stated many times […]
Read More →When you enable AlwaysOn it means that the application pool will not be shutdown after the idle timeout threshold is breached. I wrote about this threshold here and here. The point here is that after a cold start of your application, AlwaysOn will send a request to the ROOT of your application. Whatever file is […]
Read More →I worked on this issue and wanted to write it down because I love it when I can execute the WinDbg commands in my “Must use, must know WinDbg commands, my most used” article and find the reason for the problem. I executed !sos.threadpool and did see that the CPUs were pretty high, as seen […]
Read More →According to this “Operating system functionality on Azure App Service” and my interpretation, it means if you attempt to use named pipes (*)(*) for anything other than inter-process communications (*) that it will not work. I was coding some stuff and was getting these errors: SqlException: A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a […]
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Here is what I wanted to do. Add some code like this to my ASP.NET application. using System.Diagnostics; … System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(“System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine() in the Page_Load method”); Trace.Write(“Trace.Write() in the Page_Load method”); System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceError(“System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceError() in the Page_Load method”); System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceWarning(“System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceWarning() in the Page_Load method”); System.Diagnostics.Trace .TraceInformation(“System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceInformation() in the Page_Load method”); Then I wanted to write those logs out to […]
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A method to 100% shutdown the public endpoint of an App Service running in the public tenant is not provided. However, you can create an ILB ASE (which is not a public tenant) or you can restrict the access using an IP Restriction. Here is some information on the detailed feature for setting this up […]
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There are numerous flavors of ASP.NET modules, for example Web Forms (Web Sites and Web Applications), Web Pages, Model-View-Controller (MVC) and the newest one Core. In this article I want to discuss some learnings about the difference between the compilations of an ASP.NET Web Site (Figure 1) and an ASP.NET Web Application (Figure 2). Figure […]
Read More →Instead of storing user id / passwords or database connection strings in source or configuration files, you should consider storing them in an Azure Key vault. Azure Function 400 Bad Request How to connect to a database from an Azure Function Create an Azure Key Vault secret How to connect to a database from an […]
Read More →You cannot, at this moment, create a custom culture on an Azure App Service. Cultures are part of the standard operating system and require changes to the registry to modify or add them. An Azure App Service runs in a sandbox which does not allow code or script to modify the registry. I do not […]
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