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Copyeditor: Ann Weaver Cover: Twist Creative 1 Table of Contents Foreword ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 Who should read this book ......................................................................................................................................................... 7 Assumptions .................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 This book might not be for you if… .......................................................................................................................................... 8 Organization of this book ............................................................................................................................................................ 8 Conventions and features in this book ................................................................................................................................... 9 System requirements ...................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................................................................................ 10 Errata, updates, & support ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 Free ebooks from Microsoft Press .......................................................................................................................................... 10 Free training from Microsoft Virtual Academy ................................................................................................................. 11 We want to hear from you ........................................................................................................................................................ 11 Stay in touch ................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Chapter 1 Microsoft Azure Web Apps .............................................................................................................................. 12 Introduction to Azure Resource Groups .............................................................................................................................. 12 Introduction to App Service Plans.......................................................................................................................................... 13 Create an Azure Web App using the Azure portal .......................................................................................................... 15 Create a Web App and SQL Database ............................................................................................................................. 15 Add an Azure Redis Cache to the Azure Resource Group ....................................................................................... 19 Create an Azure Web App using Visual Studio ................................................................................................................ 21 Create a Web App by using Server Explorer ................................................................................................................. 21 Create a Web App by using the ASP.NET Web Application template ............................................................... 24 Create a Web App using the Azure Resource Group template ............................................................................. 26 Connection strings and application settings...................................................................................................................... 34 Set connection strings and app settings in the environment ................................................................................ 34 Retrieve connection strings and app settings from the environment ................................................................ 36 How connection strings and app settings are stored in the environment ....................................................... 37 2 Add a deployment slot for an Azure Web App ................................................................................................................. 38 Scale to a Standard App Service Plan ............................................................................................................................... 39 Add a deployment slot ........................................................................................................................................................... 40 Set up continuous deployment with Visual Studio Online ........................................................................................... 41 Introduction to Visual Studio Online ................................................................................................................................ 41 Set up deployment from source control to a staging slot ....................................................................................... 43 Add Visual Studio solution to source control ................................................................................................................ 45 Commit Visual Studio solution to source control ........................................................................................................ 45 Role Based Access Control ......................................................................................................................................................... 46 Subscription-level roles .......................................................................................................................................................... 47 Resource-level roles ................................................................................................................................................................. 48 Summary ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 49 Chapter 2 Azure WebJobs ...................................................................................................................................................