Is there a way to implement IT HIT WebDAV on the Azure blob file storage? We really don't want to buy Virtual Machine to do so, we already got Web Application running on Azure and we want to store all Documents/Files on the Azure file storage. Any help will be highly appreciated.
IT Hit has created a WebDAV Server sample with Azure Data Lake back-end and Azure Active Directory integration. The sample configuration description is located here: ASP.NET Core WebDAV Server Sample with Azure Blob / Data Lake Storage Back-End. You can browse the source code of this sample on GitHub.
The document's content in this sample is indexed by Azure Cognitive Search. The detailed instructions for its configuration could be found here: Azure Data Lake Full-Text Cognitive Search Configuration:
You can also create and deploy this sample directly to your Azure account using the ASP.NET WebDAV Server Data Lake Wizard, which will really save you a lot of time.
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I have to migrate asp.net webform & asp.net MVC websites to Microsoft Azure and most of the webform based website have been created as "website project" in visual studio. and all website use MS SQL Server 2008 R2 as database plus all website use either .net Framework 4.0/4.5.
I confused by reading article regarding migrating webform based website to Azure not working and need code changes and if we use Azure database then we cant use stored procedures etc... this has confused me alot.
So i have few question regarding this.
Can i move asp.net webform 4.0 based website directly to Azure without making any code changes assuming we are connecting to external SQL SERVER 2008.
For first step can which MS SQL Server database i need to choose on Azure so that i can easily restore database in Azure and connect to this database from my local machine using MS Management Studio..
I have heard lot about Azure store files as blob and we need to make change to code to point to new path. What is this Azure blob and why do we need to change code for pointing them blob.
What i have to do keep allowing users from uploading images & document without making any changes in the code..
Does Azure website have always 1 instance running or multiple instance running, i am asking this as our website use InProc session state will i lose session if it is ruuning on multiple instance. or should we prefer SQL Session state in Azure enviroment.
What i should take into consideration for migration current website to Azure.
Will copy pasting all the files in Azure work. Please advise
Depending on how old the ASP.NET webforms projects are, you are going to need to bring them up to date with current security, and anti forgery tokens, etc.
Also if the project was previously a "Website" and not a "Web Application", this is also something that you will need to take into consideration!
I am currently working on upgrading a website to a web application.
This might be a useful website to look through
http://www.gregthatcher.com/Azure/Ch7_ConvertWebsiteToWebApplication.aspx
Migrating to Azure is easy ,
create a Azure account and create the web app which you want to host or create.
you can deploy using FTP or use the build and deploy feature in TFS account.
Steps
You need to create web app in your account.
create a DB in azure manually or export your DB to azure from Management studio if you have an existing DB
get the Connection string from the Publish profile from Azure.
Setup the storage account if you want to store files ,images etc.
I need to host an SQLite database on Azure that will be shared among several web apps. My only options seem to be Azure Blob or File Storage (since they got rid of the "Azure Websites" that provided dedicated storage shared among web instances). However, there does not appear to be any way to map an Azure Storage share to a drive that the Web App will recognize, and thus no way to generate a path that SQLite can use. And obviously, SQLite can't use REST APIs to access the DB without tremendous hacking in the SQLite VFS.
So I'm wondering if anyone has successfully hosted an SQLite DB on Azure Storage such that it was accessible to a Web App?
Azure Web Apps (formerly known as Web Sites) still exists, and still has durable, shared storage across your web app instances.
You cannot use a blob to hold SQLite, as it is not compatible with file I/O (it has a REST API for access). And you cannot simply attach an Azure File Storage volume (you can use one, via API, but cannot mount it to an Azure Web App instance).
Nothing's changed with Web Apps: just place your SQLite database in a directory underneath your app's root directory.
I am creating an application that automate the deployment to Azure Web Sites. I was able to create Azure Web Site, database and storage programmatically but I didn't saw any library out there that can create Azure Cache programmtically. Anyone?
Thanks in advance. :)
Whatever operations you perform on Windows Azure Management Portal is backed by Windows Azure Service Management API. I'm pretty sure that there's an API for creating and configuring caching programmatically but it has not been made public yet. I would recommend keeping an eye out on the REST API documentation page. This is where you will find information about how you could create cache programmatically.
Azure Managed Cache is in preview and hence REST API are not available for it. Also it can not be created from Portal. However, you can use Powershell commands to create it. Once created you can then manage it from azure portal itself.
Following command can be used for creating Basic Cache of 128MB.
New-AzureManagedCache -Name YourCacheName -Location "YourLocation"
For the detailed steps refer to - Create Azure Managed Cache from Powershell
So you can create .ps1 file or powersehll commands string which then can be invoked from your code.
Hope this helps.
Thanks to Daniel Lang's blogpost we were able to encrypt our documents.
Since we are now in a multitenant situation(Multitenancy in RavenDb) and deployed ravendb within IIS 7.5 we want to encrypt all of the tenants.
Unfortunately we're getting a lot of errors (especially in the management studio):
The remote server returned an error: NotFound.
Our tenant databases are created, as we can see them on the file system. But within the management studio we cannot see them anymore.
To enable encryption we placed the encryption dll in the Plugins folder.
Do we need to make some extra configurations to get this to work?
Edit: steps for reproduce:
Clean instance of ravendb configured, IIS 7.5
Created an encryption dll, based on Daniel Lang's blog post
Created a plugin folder and saved the encryption dll from step 2 in this folder
Go to management studio and create some sample data for the default database
Optional: create a tenant database and create some sample data
I have an ASP.NET application running on shared hosting and want to use Windows Azure blob storage to store images (my shared hosting has limited storage). My application will upload and download these images from/to the client PC.
I created a new cloud project to test this out and got it working successfully with the offline storage emulator, but I noticed that the cloud project has a web worker role which, I believe, needs a compute instance when deployed to Azure. Azure storage is very cheap, but if I need a compute instance for my application to talk to to access it then it becomes much more expensive, even with the smallest instance.
My question is - do I need a compute instance in order to upload and download files to blob storage or can my application talk directly to the blob storage?
Short answer: You do not need compute instances to talk to Azure storage. You can talk to Azure storage directly from client apps or from apps hosted by other providers.
Nor do you need to create a new Cloud project within Visual Studio to take advantage of Azure blob storage. Simply, reference appropriate .DLLs (Azure Storage Client) and you're good to go.