Is it possible to retrieve a Visual Studio solution directly from an Azure App Service?

Question

I have an App Service in my Azure account which I deployed with Visual Studio Publish wizard. Is it possible to restore the deployed solution locally (in Visual Studio) from

Answer 1

When you publish an app to an App Service (web app), just your code is published, not the Visual Studio project / solution files. So no, unless you somehow forcibly packaged (or maybe ftp'd) a copy of your solution files, they won't be available for download.

It's fairly trivial to pull the app down to a local machine though, since Web App has built-in ftp. Just don't count on being able to retrieve source code for languages such as c# and Java (since usually just the dll/jar files are published).