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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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In this post we are going to explore: how to simulate CPU-load hosted on an Azure web app; how you can set simple rules for automatic scaling; and how to setup alerts to get notified when your app is under pressure. Let’s start by creating a very simple ASP.NET core web api application. The default web api template in Visual Studio is more than OK....
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A common practice to increase the performance and availability of a web application is to distribute it in multiple servers across the globe. Thus, customers will be served from the data-center that is closer to them, thus reducing response latency. In addition, when one server confronts downtime, other servers will handle the requests without the user noticing it. In this post we will explore how easy it is to setup...
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A common practice to increase the performance and availability of a web application is to distribute it in multiple servers across the globe. Thus, customers will be served from the data-center that is closer to them, thus reducing response latency. In addition, when one server confronts downtime, other servers will handle the requests without the user noticing it. In this post we will explore how easy it is to setup...
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In this post we are going to use Visual Studio Team Services to automate the build and deployment task of an ASP.NET Core Web application to Azure. What is Visual Studio Team Services? Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provide a fast and easy way to plan, build and ship software across a variety of platforms. Whether you work in the cloud, on-premises,...
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In this tutorial we are going to map a network drive on our computer to a file storage in the cloud using Azure File Storage. This can be very helpful if you want to share files among multiple computers and, bearing in mind that the storage is in the cloud, you can scale your drive as much as you need. First of all, let’s start with...
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In this tutorial we are going to map a network drive on our computer to a file storage in the cloud using Azure File Storage. This can be very helpful if you want to share files among multiple computers and, bearing in mind that the storage is in the cloud, you can scale your drive as much as you need. First of all, let’s start with...
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Sometimes you may want your Azure website to not be publicly available or to restrict the access to it quickly and easily, without having to perform any complex configuration or code changes. This actually can be achieved with a few clicks through Azure Websites Authentication/Authorization; a feature that allows users to quickly restrict access, using Azure Active Directory, with just a few clicks. In this post,...
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In the new Microsoft Azure Portal, you might have noticed that, next to some of your resources, appears the text “(Classic)”, for example Storage Accounts and Storage Accounts (classic). This happens in order to separate resources that have been deployed with the Classic deployment model from the ones that have been deployed with the Azure Resource Manager. Some Background Azure originally provided only...
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In Azure if you have two or more SQL Databases and you want to perform a query across them, you might come across the following error: [crayon-579cfaea2349f498907233/] In order to perform cross database queries among SQL Azure databases you need to use the elastic database query feature. What is the Elastic Database Query Feature? The elastic database query feature enables you to run a Transact-SQL query...
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In our previous article we explored the option of creating, deploying and managing the Parse Server using a pre-configured VM image on Microsoft Azure. In this post we are going to describe an easy way for Parse developers to continue their work on Microsoft Azure by leveraging the following mobile services; Azure App Service and Notification Hubs. In Azure MarketPlace, when searching for Parse Server, you may come across...
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Parse was founded in 2011, in order to provide backend tools for mobile developers that help them store data in the cloud, manage identity logins, handle push notifications and run custom code in the cloud. In 2013 it was acquired by Facebook and in 2014 it was reported to power 500,000 mobile apps. Parse Server is an open source version of the Parse...
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Parse was founded in 2011, in order to provide backend tools for mobile developers that help them store data in the cloud, manage identity logins, handle push notifications and run custom code in the cloud. In 2013 it was acquired by Facebook and in 2014 it was reported to power 500,000 mobile apps. Parse Server is an open source version of the Parse...
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Nowadays, it seems very common to upload an image to an application, have it analyzed and get useful info about it; have you ever wondered,though, how easy it is to add this functionality to your own app? I am going to start a series of posts, describing a simple ASP.NET core application that allows you to upload images, detect faces and extract...
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Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network (CDN) is a globally distributed network of proxy servers, deployed in multiple data centers, which serve content to end users with high availability and high performance. Usually, when a user visits your site, he/she gets redirected to your web host’s server, which is found at a central location. Based on the distance between the user’s and the server’s...
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WebJobs is a feature of the Azure App Service that enables you to run a program or a script, continuously, either based on a specific schedule or on demand, in the same context as a web app, API app, or mobile app. WebJobs SDK provides triggers, which comprise the conditions that cause the function to be called, and binders, that comprise the way...
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