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Glenn Ferrie
Glenn Ferrie

Reputation: 10380

Restore Azure Website to initial state

I'd like to "flush" an existing Azure Website (with an application published and running) and return it to its initial state (see sample link below) without loosing any of my configurations, connection strings, etc.

"initial state" sample: http://glenntest123.azurewebsites.net

I have an ASP.NET MVC 4 application deployed to another Azure Website and I changed the Assembly name of the MVC application. Let's say the name changed from Hub2 to GlennApp.

When I published to Azure through VS 2013 Community (Update 4) both Hub2.dll and GlennApp.dll are in the bin folder and the errors that are surfacing are as follows:

My initial research pointed towards Owin.Startup auto-discovery. So i've added the following two lines to the appsettings: 

<add key="owin:AutomaticAppStartup" value="false"/>
<add key="owin:AppStartup" value="GlennApp.Startup, GlennApp"/>

This doesn't seem to have stopped Hub2 from being loaded in the AppDomain.

I believe my options are:

Help?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 202

Answers (1)

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 6376

In the Publish wizard in Visual Studio you can choose to delete all previous files prior to re-publishing. You can use this to redeploy your site, with the renamed DLL and have the old one removed.

If your settings etc. are stored inside the Web.Config or in the settings stored in Azure that won't be a problem.

Visual Studio Web Publish wizard

Upvotes: 3

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