Can you use the Azure DiagnosticMonitor in an Azure Web Site (not a web role) ? Or does it need a compute role?
No,
Azure DiagnosticsMonitor is only for Web/Worker Roles. Diagnostic in Azure WebSite is common as for any web application. As Azure WebSites use persistent storage, you can safely write a log file (having in mind you are using multi-threaded environment like in any ASP.NET/or any web application). More, you can configure additional diagnostics options in the "Configure" tab of the WebSite:
You can turn on Detailed Error Messages + Failed Request Tracing. You can download the Failed Request logs from the FTP server of your site.
You can use log4net for detailed error/trace logging in your web application (if it is ASP.NET). Some tutorial here.
No, You can't use Windows Azure Diagnostics (DiagnosticsMonitor) in an Azure Website. You would need to use a compute role for that.
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I have been trying to do Azure AD authentication with ASP.Net Core application where I want to achieve this without doing the App Registrations, Reply URL settings in Azure.
The Reason being, I want our users from other domains to download our application from azure Marketplace and start logging into the application with AAD without doing the App Registrations step - Is it Possible ?
If not possible, Is there any programmatic approach to create App Registrations, Reply URL and give necessary permissions so as to simplify the process and to enhance user experience
Any Sample documentation/link/solution is highly appreciated.
I'm new to azure, and I'm trying to setup a single page website(web api 2). How can I limit access to my services so only my website can use it?
I know that I can use app services to setup my web applications/services but as far as i understand it will be open to everyone.
I also read about APIs, but Api management service seems very expensive and advanced for such a simple task. Is there any options? Am I in the wrong track?
Update
Ok, I saw the link for filtering based on IP. But as I've mentioned that single page application also is hosted on Azure. There is no static IP. If that is the way, I still need to know how you will find out about the IPRange.
App Service to use different authentication providers Azure Active Directory,Facebook,Google,Microsoft,Twitter.
We can set any type of Authentication/Authorization in the Azure Portal.More info about how to use authentication for API Apps in Azure App Service, please refer to document.
I wanted to host my WebApi project on azure. But I am not getting sure which way should i use to run it on azure. Like there are Websites, Cloud Services that contain Web role and Worker role. Then which one should i choose. If cloud service is the option then which one out of Web role and worker role is good?
Any help is appreciated.
For hosting a simple web API (that you can scale according to usage, etc.) you'll want to use Websites. Assuming you're not looking for more complex / heavy-weight features (network configuration, more complex architectures e.g. offloading background processing different instances via queueing mechanisms, RDP into the host machine, etc.), then Websites are becoming the de-facto way to host websites on Azure.
The following page from the Azure documentation will give you a full feature comparison between the two:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/choose-web-site-cloud-service-vm/, but in short, if you simply have a web API project in VS that you want to host in Azure without worrying about the underlying infrastructure, then use Websites.
If you only want to host a Headless (No Web Interface) Web API, I recommend you using Azure Web Service - Web Role.
For Worker Role, it is like a console application that you want to use it to process background task. Normally, we use it to process from Message Queue (Azure Service Bus - Queue).
Azure create a Optimize VM to run those two type of Roles with no unnecessary junks. So you will get the most of it.
However, I still suggest you to read more detail document from azure website to see what environment which is best fit for your long term plan.
You need to login in Azure (https://manage.windowsazure.com) -> Web Sites -> Create New
After that you will find the Name of the Web Site Under the Web Sites.
Click Web Sites -> Select New Created Web Site -> Go TO -> Deployement
In Deployement -> Find -> Integrate source control
Select Appropriate Option i.e GitHub or Dropbox etc..
Using Dropbox => Now Publish your WebApi Project and Paste that Data into Dropbox Folder With the same name of your New Created Web Site in Azure
After Upload Go To -> Azure -> Select Web Site -> Deployement -> Sync.
It will take all the data from Dropbox and You can run your WebApi Project From Azure
More Details Link, Link2, Link3
I have code that parses 100 to 200 html webpages using HtmlAgilityPack every hour. I am collecting the parsed data and I am making an xml file which would then be consumed by users.
Now I want to move this code to Azure. Would it be possible to parse websites on Windows azure? If so: what kind of service provided by Azure should I use?
I am not familiar with Azure. Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks.
Azure offers you a couple of solutions:
IaaS
IaaS or Infrastructure as a Service. This means that you get the infrastructure from Azure and that you can host your own virtual machine on it. This does require you to maintain the server yourself but you get full flexibility.
PaaS or Platform as a Service. This not only gives you a VM to run your code on but also an operating system that is automatically maintained for you. This is what Azure is really about and what you should aim for.
When creating a PaaS application you can choose for a regular website or for a cloud service. A cloud service contains roles, web roles and worker roles. Web roles are regular IIS hosted websites. Worker roles are the Azure equivalent of a Windows service.
In your case I would look at worker roles. They can run continually and are ideal for exeucting scheduled operations. From your worker role you can access Azure Blob storage to store the XML files that you create. Those files can be exposed to external users in a secure way.
Windows Azure is a hosting environment. According to what kind of project you created, you may be looking for a Cloud Service, where you can just host any code you've written.
I am trying to restart/bounce my Azure Web site on a reserved instance (Azure Web Sites) but I can't seem to find any documentation anywhere to do this. I can do it via the new portal (Azure Management Portal) but I want to do it via c# code.
Check this sample, how to interact with Azure Management API: https://github.com/davidebbo/AzureWebsitesSamples/blob/master/ManagementLibrarySample/Program.cs
There is a RestartAsync method (_websiteClient.WebSites.RestartAsync) you can use to restart your website.