TIL about Azure Resource Manager templates

 Application Insights, Azure, Programming  No Responses »
Sep 292017
 

I recently wanted to create an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template with a number of interdependent resources. This post contains a number of “Things I Learned”. Hopefully, you can avoid some of the problems I had.

The resources were:

  • SQL server and database
  • Azure function app
  • Azure web app for an ASP.NET Core site
  • Storage account
  • Application Insights instance for the web app
  • Application Insights instance for the function app

In my previous post I described a place to get detailed logs about Web App site extension installation. I had spent a long time to figure out the reason that the installation of the Application Insights site extension failed.

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Shared Nuget package repository for different Visual Studio Solutions

 .net, NuGet, Programming  No Responses »
Sep 092014
 

To avoid having the same Nuget packages in a development project, when the project consists of multiple Visual Studio solutions (.sln files), it is possible to configure Nuget to use a shared repository.

This is done by changing the default packages path to something else.

For existing solutions and projects depending on packages in the default path, the hintpath in the C# projects files (.csproj) needs to be changed to point to the new packages folder.

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