How do I make CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting less verbose?

Question

I\'m currently using CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting(\"setting\") to get settings for my application, but it\'s writing logs of everything it\'s checking to the console

Answer 1

CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting now has a method overload with a parameter called outputResultsToTrace.

If you pass false to this method, then it'll disable the Trace.WriteLine used elsewhere to "spam" the Trace log.

So

var mySetting = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("MySetting");

becomes

var mySetting = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("MySetting", false);

I found this by looking directly at the source code on GitHub: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/blob/52fc67253a176bea01c37c164f71c7eba8eaedba/src/Common/Configuration/CloudConfigurationManager.cs#L35

It's probably worth mentioning that this overload is not documented: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/mt634648.aspx

So I'm not sure if it's an official and supported part of the API, or if it's something that might change or go away in the future.

This change was made at the end of 2015: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-net/commit/e14398136d7d3b6d5e4675f1e8ccbdd37a8c6b01