I wrote an article here that discussed a Hello World WebJob. The WebJob I use in this example can be downloaded here and I discuss here. Here is an additional resource for setting up CRON to run a WebJob. The requirements for this are: Your App Service must run in either a Standard or Premium […]
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Using Azure App Services to Convert a Web Page to PDF
Please have a read of an article I wrote about converting an HTML page to a PDF in real-time. It was published in this month’s MSDN Magazine. Figure 1, Using Azure App Services to Convert a Web Page to PDF
Read More →How my chatbot remained statefull using Azure Bot Services
One of the challenges I had, well maybe not a challenge, but it took some hours to think it through, with making my #chatbots #chatbot personality was coding in the ability to recall the last question, last #LUIS Intent or #LUIS Entity so that I could reference it for making better decisions on how to […]
Read More →How I tested debugged my chatbot that I created using the Bot Services on Azure
Well, the fact that you do not need to use Visual Studio or to install the Bot Framework to get a #chatbot or a generic #Bot up and running still applies. See my other posts: Create a Bot using an Azure App Service Bot Service Most common chatbot questions and how to answer them Publishing […]
Read More →Port limit for an Azure App Service
Ever wondered how to check the number of open connections on a App Service Web App or Mobile App? Have you ever received this error while running your App Service? System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: “A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host […]
Read More →Moving an Azure App Service
I like keeping my things in order, so over time as my Azure consumption grows, I begin to recognize and learn that maybe I should have put all the related resources into the same resource group. Here is an example of how I moved an App Service Web app from one resource group to another. […]
Read More →Memory metrics for an Azure Web App and App Service Plan
Did you ever wonder why memory utilization for a Web App is different than the memory utilization of the App Service Plan, as shown in Figure 1? The App Service Plan in thei example is a SMALL BASIC mode machine. Average memory is 50.68MB which is about ~2.8% of the 1.75GB available for a SMALL […]
Read More →Deploy an App Service using Azure PowerShell to a Deployment Slot
I wrote an article here that explains how to install Azure PowerShell and to check what version it is. A trend that I am seeing is the we tend to create the capabilities to make modifications to an Azure feature and exposed the interface. Then we create a PowerShell cmdlet and then later it gets […]
Read More →Create a memory dump of your App Service when it consumes too much memory
I have written a number of troubleshooting labs here, one of which is Lab 21: WinDbg – Memory Consumption. In this article I will identify how to capture a memory dump of a process that is consuming too much memory. In this case it is running on an Azure App Service Web App. NOTE: This […]
Read More →Remote debug your Azure App Service Web App
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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