Thursday, June 24, 2010

Windows Azure – Custom configuration settings

Few days back, I received a question on our internal Azure discussion DL regarding, how we can have settings defined in a web configuration file implemented in a web role. In simple terms, how we can have configuration file in a Windows Azure application.

This is how we can do this;

During development

  • ServiceDefinition.csdef – Add name of your custom configuration

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  • ServiceConfiguration.cscfg – Add value to your custom configuration

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  • Now, use this custom configuration in code

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When you publish this project, generated ServiceConfiguration.cscfg will have your custom configuration key value pair. You can also modify this after you deploy your app in the cloud.

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