Before I get started, keep in mind, that I am not a security expert, if you want to enable security for your Azure App Service Web App I recommend using EasyAuth as described here, so much easier, IMO. You likely get some benefits from the ‘Change Authentication’ features of: No Authentication Individual User Accounts Work […]
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If you can reproduce the slow running WebJob behavior you have hosted with your Azure App Service Web App, Mobile App or API App then you can find out why using the following article. Additionally, if the WebJob is in a hung state, skip right to the portion where you take the memory dump of […]
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I created a sample ASP.NET application that you can download from here that contains a slow running request, a handled and an unhandled exception. UPDATE: I wrote an article here about remote debugging in Visual Studio 2017 and ASP.NET Core here, titled “Remote debug your Azure App Service 2017 including ASP.NET Core”, JIC you are […]
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Prerequisites Some understanding of PowerShell Read about the Web Administration module http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee909471(v=WS.10).aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee790599.aspx There are some new PowerShell IIS cmdlets for IIS 10, see them here. What’s new in IIS 10? Setup Install and Configure CSharpGuitarBugs on an IIS server as described in Lab 1 Lab Review the features available in the PowerShell WebAdmnistration module […]
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I am moving all my articles to one location. This article is a bit old, and is here for historical purpose. If you end up here please read this updated article here (Enable Failed Request Tracing for an Azure App Service Web App) Using Failed Request Tracing is a very useful tool for troubleshooting performance […]
Read More →An HTTP status code of 502 – Bad Gateway means “The server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, received an invalid response from the upstream server it accessed in attempting to fulfill the request.” I interpret that to mean that there is a server (server A) between my client and the server (server B) […]
Read More →I wrote this article some time ago “How to disable TLS 1.0 on an Azure App Service Web App” that explains some of the reasons TLS was not configurable on the Azure App Service platform. There were many customers who wanted to disable TLS 1.0 so they could remain or become PCI compliant and at […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →I wrote this article here about setting up GitHub in Visual Studio 2015 and felt it necessary to document the same in Visual Studio 2017. Here is how I setup GitHub source code management in Visual Studio 2017 Community. Install the GitHub extension for Visual Studio Create your GitHub repo and then login Create a […]
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Short answer, there isn’t one. When you compile your .NET Core console application for example, you get a DLL. Then you execute it using the DOTNET command from the .NET Core SDK found here. Check out some of my other articles I wrote in regards to ASP.NET Core and .Net Core How to call an […]
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