a developer's notebook
Visual Studio 2017 is now available to download, and one interesting feature thereof is connected services, which enable connections between your app and any service on-premises or in the cloud. In this post we are going to demonstrate how easy it is to connect your asp.net core web app to Application Insights. “Connected Services” is the new “Add Connected Service” or “Add Service Reference” feature…
To keep things tidy, in case you have multiple subscriptions associated with your Azure account, it’s a good practice to name them in a way that makes sense to you. For example, if you have an msdn subscription, the default name in Azure Portal is “Visual Studio Enterprise“, or if you have applied for a Visual Studio Dev Essentials program, the default name is “Developer Program…
Azure App service provides an easy way to track your web app’s availability / health and to get details on when and why your app wasn’t available. This kind of info is available through the web app’s blade, when selecting Diagnose and solve problems A new page appears with details on: app’s availability; requests per 5 minutes; and when and why your app…
There are times when you might want to move an app from one App Service plan to another. This can be done easily through Azure Portal, provided that the app service plans comply with the restrictions below, namely that they are: in the same resource group, and in the same geographical region. Let’s assume that you have a web app called web-app-demo-1 and three different…
Azure App Service can be integrated with a plethora of services like BitBucket, GitHub, Dropbox, OneDrive, Visual Studio Team Services, local or any external git repository, while it enables a continuous deployment workflow, where Azure pulls in the most recent updates from a project published to one of these services. One of the most common options is to configure continuous deployment…
Microsoft Azure platform is evolving at a very fast pace and keeping up with all the changes may be challenging. Many products and services are released every week, while new ones are announced as being in public preview or under development. For that reason, Microsoft has built the Microsoft Cloud Platform Roadmap, which provides a snapshot of what Microsoft is working on in its Cloud Platform business….
Azure App Service Editor, formerly known as Visual Studio Online (Monaco), is a web-based editor for App Service, that looks a lot like VS Code and allows you to modify files already deployed to Azure Web Apps. App Service Editor is based on monaco-editor, an open-source project which is generated straight from VS Code’s sources, with some shims to make it work…
Wouldn’t it be great if you could have a function which generates resized images from every new image that gets uploaded in your Azure blob storage, without having to create a new app and manage the infrastructure to run it? Welcome to the era of Serverless Computing where, through a few lines of code, you can have this function up and running in a few minutes. To…
In this post we are going to explore what we need in order to setup a local environment for our Azure Functions implementation, and how we can easily update our Azure Functions App through GitHub, using continuous integrations. Let’s start with some details about Azure Functions. What is Azure Functions? Azure Functions is a serverless event-driven experience that extends the existing Azure App Service platform; serverless…
In this post we are going to explore a feature provided by Azure App Service called “Testing in production” that allows you to direct a portion of live user traffic to one or more deployment slots of your web app before swapping this deployment slot to production. You can, thus, analyze your app, check for exceptions or errors, and make certain everything works properly, before your app…
