azure-web-sites

I d'like to add custom properties to metrics taken by Application Insights to each request of my app. For example, I want to add the user login and the tenant code, such as I can segment/group the metrics in the Azure portal. The relevant doc page seems to be this one : Set default property values But the example is for an event (i.e. gameTelemetry.TrackEvent("WinGame"); ), not for an HTTP request : var context = new TelemetryContext(); context.Properties["Game"] = currentGame.Name; var gameTelemetry = new TelemetryClient(context); gameTelemetry.TrackEvent("WinGame"); My questions : What is

I am developing an ASP.NET MVC website, which I want to host on Azure Websites. While in development, I have been using an MDF file in my App_Data directory with a connection string looking like this: <add name="DefaultConnection" connectionString="Data Source=(LocalDb)\v11.0;Initial Catalog=MyApp;Integrated Security=SSPI;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|\MyApp.mdf;MultipleActiveResultSets=true" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> To try it out on Azure, I was hoping I could leave this connection string as is, and simply FTP my MyApp.mdf into the App_Data folder on Azure, since it is all

Has you may know, Web sites hosted under Microsoft Azure Web Sites service are by default configure to timeout after idling 20 minutes (idleTimeout) and the application pool to restart every 29 hours (periodicRestart). This cause the web site to be slow for the first user accessing it. I would like to know if the new "Always On" setting available on standard mode will prevent both situation from happening. I found a few articles mentioning the feature, they are all very clear that the idle timeout will be avoided but none of them explicitly talks about the periodic restart: One of the other

I'm trying to run some pre deployment tasks (unit tests etc) with NPM on an Azure website, however the version of node on the VM is v0.10.32, the current version of node is v4.2.4. I have non administrative access to the command line via the SCM website, no RDP etc. Is there any way to upgrade? You can specify the version of node that the app is running on using the package.json file. Add: "engines":{"node":version} e.g.: "engines":{"node": "0.12.x"}, More info: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/nodejs-specify-node-version-azure-apps/ Ensure the Azure Web App has the

When I was using the web role I was just uploading the certificate in azure portal and I was able to see it .Now I have switched to the website in azure and I uploaded the certificate in the azure management portal but my code does not see it at all. Is there some configurations we need to do or some other way to access uploaded certs in azure web sites. This is how I am trying to access the uploaded cert . private List<string> GetAvailableCertificatesFromStore() { var list = new List<string>(); var store = new X509Store(StoreName.My,StoreLocation.LocalMachine); store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly);