I am working on a web project in ASP.NET which is integrated with Salesforce. I have published my web project in Windows Azure. Now I have some changes in particular files and I want to deploy these changes only rather than complete project.
If you are using Web Deploy from within Visual studio, it will automatically only deploy the changed files in a differential manner. Alternatively, if you are using Azure VM's or a Cloud Service (which is actually VM's), you can connect to the machine(s) using RDP and update select files manually. You can get the RDP information to the machine from the Azure Portal.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-log-on-windows-server/
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I have solution with startup project that have .ccproj format. This is an Azure project that require Azure SDK installed. By default i am able to run it using IIS Express with Azure storage emulator & Azure compute emulator. But when i make some changes i need to recompile entire solution and re-run it. How can i deploy it in IIS server ? Could you advise me alternative deploy method how to run it in simplest way ?
I want to re-compile and attach to process after make some changes in project without restarting IIS Express & Azure emulators, it takes a lot of time.
#DotNetGoose,
should be able to run on IIS but you will need to abstract all the calls that your code read content from RoleEnvironmental and direct them to read from Web.config, and have a copy of corresponding settings in your web.config.
once the abstraction is done, set your web app as default startup project, you should be able to run them as normal web app on iis or iisexpress.
I am working on a asp.net test project. I were deploy the project to windows azure. After that I add some code and the project stop working, but the project on azure is still working. Is there any way that can make me retrieve the project from azure ?
In visual studio, I can connect to windows azure and displaying the projects that I deployed to it. I can see some of the files but not all. The important files for me which is the controller files doesn't appear.
Azure isn't source control. What you would have published to azure (I'm hoping) will not be the whole code but a 'published' version of it.
Short answer would be no
When you publish a Web dev project to Azure Visual Studio compiles all the source code (.net) you have. Then the compilation results are binary files (.dll) and some other website assets like css,js and html files.
So there are no .Net source files from your project published into the website, because of that you can't get your source files again.
I strongly recommend you to check these links
Continuous deployment using GIT in Azure App Service
Using Git
in Visual Studio
spanish demo - Repositorios Git privados y
gratuitos
Besides of that you can try to use any source code repository or ALM suite, As you're using azure you can also use Visual Studio Online to host your projects for free and also be able to publish directly to azure repositories.
more info Visual Studio Online
You can not get code from this method. use FTp tool, like Core FTP, FileZilla for that.
These are steps get ftp of your web application.
Go to azure (https://portal.azure.com).
Select web app from browser all option.
Select you app from list an then click on settings option.
Then click on properties, then enable you ftp and create password for that.
FTP/Deployment User , FTP HOST Name , Password
Note: You will not get your code fils( .cs).
There is LOTS of information on publishing asp to Azure Cloud Web Service and so forth but I cannot find a lot on publishing it to an azure VM.
Also another problem is anything I find assumes I have started a project with azure enabled from the start. Which I haven't done, so I would have to somehow convert it, again I have seen many ways of doing this on the web based on different requirements.
So how would I publish an ASP.net project (that has no reference to azure) to an azure VM.
Thanks
Install Web Deploy into your VM and publish directly through Visual Studio
http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/web-deploy
I have deployed my asp.net web site using cloud service. I have deployed it by publishing from Visual studio.
problem is every time if i have to make changes to web.config, i have to redeploy from visual studio.
Is there anyway we can directly modify from windows azure? I don't want every time developer should involve in this.
Instead of defining your settings in web.config file, you should define them in Service Configuration File (*.cscfg). Then you should be able to change the values from Azure Portal and other means without redeploying your code.
At any cost, stay away from making web.config changes in the deployed code (using RDP or some other means). If for some reason Azure decides to deploy your code in other VM, your changes will be lost. See this thread for more details: Azure Webrole loads old website version after restart.
Is there a way I can deploy my entire website/webapp to an Azure WebRole without the need of Visual Studio?
Context: We have a test environment where there's an IIS hosted web app where our testers test (of course). The thing is, we want to grab that exact tested web app folder and deploy it "as is" to a WebRole.
Please avoid commenting on our procedure, we have been looking at it and we will eventually change it if we have to, I just need a 'simple' yes(how)/no answer.
IIS Web Deploy can be used to package/migrate/restore IIS applications. It can be enabled while deploying a web role as described in this article and allows to update the web role with the application as deployed in your test environment.
Be aware that only single instance cloud services are supported and that in case of a maintenance operation by the fabric controller, your service will be rolled back to the state created by the initial azure package deployment. (There once was a tool for syncing between multi-instance web deployments but sadly that did not work out too well and is no longer supported. Do not attempt to use or rebuild it.)
Installing and Configuring Web Deploy shows the steps to get web deploy for your local testing IIS while articles on using web deploy like this one show examples for calling the tool.
Another option to evaluate are azure websites and git deployment. This could provide you with a documented and reproducible form of deployment that is not prone to unwanted rollbacks while allowing the service to scale to multiple instances. This option might not work out if the application it too tied to the web roles infrastructure or contains code not suitable for the more restricted web sites environment.
A third option to look at is using CSPack as presented in this article. You basically create a service definition and package up the webapp manually without building it in Visual Studio or TFS.
Yes - make sure you have enabled Remote Access on your webrole. Then copy your web app from your local IIS folder to F:\sitesroot\0 (NOTE - may be E:\sitesroot\0 on same web roles).
Yes, you can write a programmatic interface against Web Deploy from your C# code. If you're deploying to Azure Web Sites, you could also use the Windows Azure Management Libraries to spin up new web sites or clouand deploy them.