SDK and Tools
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Add F# documentation for Azure SDK
Add documentation for the Azure services from F#, particularly documenting
(a) how to use basic services like blob and table storage from the F# Interactive REPL, to allow F# scripting to be used to script Azure
(b) showing how to develop and use F# type providers for Azure
All the documentation should be cross-platform so that F# users on Mac, Linux and mobile can also learn how to use Azure services.
The current documentation for C# is very difficult to follow for F# programmers since it depends on specific Visual Studio tooling.
226 votesThank you for the feedback. I’m all for more documentation. We’ll review.
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Export Resource Group to Visio Diagram
loving the power of Resource Groups. Was thinking that it would be useful to be able to do Get-AzureResourceGroupToVisio where it would generate diagram with the relevant Shapes for resource types and show connections between (say) Web Sites and SQL Databases / Servers
77 votesWe are looking into this… is Visio the end goal here or just something that will help visualize the contents of the template/resource group?
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depoly to blob storage as part of visual studio publish
It would be great in visual studio to mark a css, js or image (so static file) as needing deployment to blob storage as part of the publishing process. This would make it much easier to create website that utilize table storage and CDN for these files speeding up sites and making it easier to make changes to this static content
69 votesI’ve discussed an idea like this with a few of the web tooling Program Managers recently, and we all agree that the feature is indeed a legitimate one we should consider. The discussions are really early.
We do have support for uploading files to blob storage accounts directly from within VS. We also have web publishing capabilities. Add to that the support we have in Razor for being able to load things like jQuery from disk when the site’s running in debug mode to later loading from a CDN, and it seems like something we could develop.
We’re looking into the options now. I’ll keep this thread updated in the future.
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Create NuGet packages for all assemblies in the Windows Azure SDK
Today there are official NuGet packages for some of the assemblies in the Azure SDK like Service Bus and Configuration Manager. Others are missing, like Service Runtime. There are some community contributed packages, but I prefer official ones.
The motivation for NuGet packages is the same as always:
* you automatically get the needed changes in your app/web.config
* you can more easily change the version number of the assembly that you like to use, in the package.config and then push to your VCS. Compare this with reinstalling a new version of the SDK on every developer/CI/build machine.
* the…56 votesWe are currently investigating the opportunities around shipping more features as NuGet packages. We have opened up far more areas as NuGet packages than in previous releases. That said, the idea of creating a NuGet package that contains the emulator is a large effort. As we progress towards this goal or realize that it isn’t possible I’ll update the forum thread.
For the time being, rest assured we’ve heard this comment, which has been echoed by the larger Windows Azure community. As an Azure developer myself I find merit in this request and feel there is a good chance it could eventually be realized.
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ADAL support for Certificate Authentication X.509 in WebView
Please add support for Certificate Based Authentication for WebView in the ADAL SDK.
Currently this also cause issues for the Microsoft Office Apps on iOS and Android...
Se more information here:
https://github.com/AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-library-for-objc/issues/293Please get the vote up!
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Make the Windows Azure SDK more Unit Test friendly
There are a bunch of static classes in the Windows Azure SDK making unit testing and mocking more difficult than I would like. How about making the Windows Azure SDK mock:able?
54 votesMany of the SDKs available since this original post have been updated to support more unit testing scenarios. The management libraries are testable, and we have aspirations to provide mocking capabilities but this isn’t fully completed.
I’m not sure about other areas of the SDK, for instance being able to mock the role environment or instances. We’ve discussed this in the past (and ongoing) and you know I’m a supporter of more testing features across the SDK landscape.
I’m marking this as “Started,” though, because all the areas of Windows Azure are committed to providing better testing features, and it is a very big priority for the ADX team that our SDKs provide the development community with good unit testing support. I’m not sure this one would ever be “completable,” as the platform keeps growing, but you can rest assured we’re addressing this more aggressively now.
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Provide more information of breaking changes and changelog.
When cx upgrade modules which provided by Microsoft, they need to do a test. First they plan which test case they should do but there is not enough information to decide this.
Our feedback is....
1. Could you provide information of backward and downward compatibility?
2. Could you provide impacted method and property list when cx upgrade modules from previous version?
3. Could you provide migration information from ASM to ARM?It is very important information to decide how to do a test.
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publish from VS with app_offline.htm
Make it easier to allow a 'app_offline.html' when publishing from visual studio.
Everytime i'm publishing from VS, my app starts to serve the error page to my customers. I wish that i could add app_offline.htm file when publishing starts and removing it when publishing finishes.31 votesI’m following up with the team on this item and we’ll update this forum post ASAP.
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Compute Emulator: Allow multiple running emulated deployments to use the same port number
When debugging co-dependent deployments side by side, those deployments cannot use the same port number even though the deployments run on different IP addresses. This forces the developer to use non standard ports on at least one deployment, which when deployed for real causes issues with corporate firewalls blocking access to those ports.
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Start/stop instances by the development compute emulator UI
There should be a possibility to to spin off new instances of a certain role within the compute emulator UI. The other way should be possible too. You should be able to gracefully shut down 1 of the X instances running of a role by the compute emulator UI.
In development you want to be able to easily test your inner-role communication with starting or stopping instances, which looks like a missing feature in the compute emulator UI.
26 votesI’m coordinating with the proper teams to get a more comprehensive update on this item. Someone will follow up on the thread ASAP.
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Fix the long path-name issue in the SDK Dev Fabric
The insanely long path-name used for the deployment folder in the Dev Fabric often results in apps not working. PLEASE fix it so the path-name is shorter, or let use specify a base folder (e.g. C:\Temp) for the Dev Fabric to use.
25 votesI know this has been improved since the post was originally sent in, but will check with the team to verify exactly what the limitations are in the latest release.
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Expose Swagger definitions for Azure Service Management API so consumers can
Expose Swagger v2 definitions for Azure Service Management API so api consumers can use various tools for their platforms to generate proxy classes for API calls.
As an example - I'd like to be able to generate proxy classes to call Azure Management API for .NET using AutoRest tool, and re-generate it in case API was changed or new endpoints were added.23 votes -
Extend management API with SQL Azure support
Similar scenario like need to know what services and storage is account using would be helpful to have information about SQL Azure databases
19 votesWe have provided this functionality in the management REST API. Here is the MSDN documentation on database servers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn505713.aspx
Here is the documentation on managing SQL databases: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn505719.aspx
For a command-line client experience, here is the documentation on the PowerShell cmdlets: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn505682.aspx
We’ll be offering more functionality in this area soon.
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Multitenancy framework for provisioning and metering
Extend SDK and security framework to support multitenancy and ability to meter CPU and storage usage for (groups of) users.
18 votesThis is a feature currently being investigated.
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Make VS tooling aligned with Portal
The portal is checking if there are more than one route for a get/post. The Visual Studio tooling does not. Please make them both act the same and keep them aligned. This way it enables Continuous delivery pipelines etc.
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Publish-AzureWebsiteProject
I experience an error issue with the PowerShell Azure Publish-AzureWebsiteProject. When I have somes webjobs under the website the command fail with "CloseError : (:) [Publish-AzureWebsiteProject], DeploymentException"
It seem the command Publish-AzureWebsiteProject try to clean app_data on the IIS server and this is causing the issue.
Maybe correct the problem or add an option to skip the cleaning of the AppData.
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Azure Java SDK to support service management
The current Azure Java SDK doesn't seem to support managing and deploying of Hosted Services, Certificates, Instances etc.
These REST API wrappings existed in the previous Java SDK released by Soyatec, and as far as I know this new SDK should be the replacement for the Soyatec's SDK.
Would it be possible to get the management functionality to the future versions?
12 votesWe are working on this currently. We’ve just deployed .NET and Node.js SDKs supporting service management, and are working on completing the same level of quality for Java. I’ll keep this post updated.
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Azure SDK for .net core
So, we released .net core 2 months ago. It's new, fast, cool, cloud ready and etc.
But Cloud is not ready to .net core, because we have no .net core SDK!
Please, refactor and publish .net core compatible version of sdk.
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Message about webjobs connection strings is incorrect
On the webjobs detail page, the following message appears if the app.config is set incorrectly. This message does not match the documented connection strings at http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/06/18/announcing-the-0-3-0-beta-preview-of-microsoft-azure-webjobs-sdk/
Additionally, the link would be better if it pointed to an article more specific to the webjobs / problem at hand.Make sure that you are setting a connection string named ***AzureWebJobsDashboard*** in your Microsoft Azure Website configuration with a value similar to DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=NAME;AccountKey=KEY pointing to the Microsoft Azure Storage account where the Microsoft Azure WebJobs Runtime logs are stored.
Please visit the article about configuring connection strings for more information on how you…12 votes -
Fix issue deployments screen issue: Get/Refresh TFS OAuth token failed with invalid_grant
If I go to the deployments tab for my website, I get an error saying: 'Could not connect to the Visual Studio Online.'
The detailed message says 'Get/Refresh TFS OAuth token failed with invalid_grant'.This screen worked when I first set the site up, but has broken since. My TFS online account is working and the solution does build and deploy.
11 votesThanks for your note, Matthew. We will look into working this out.
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