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How to NuGet Nightly Azure Web Job SDK bits

If you're coding the bleeding edge, you may find yourself in situation where the version of the App Services SDK you want has not been officially released yet, but it's there on GitHub. To give you an example, I needed to get at the still burgeoning support for EventProcessorHost in Web Jobs via the Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.ServiceBus assembly. How do you get these packages into your solution? The process to getting at the "nightly" builds turned out to be surprisingly simple. Within Visual Studio, right click on your solution and choose Manage NuGet Packages for Solution. In the top, right corner of... Read more →

Azure Functions and Event Hubs

Azure Functions abstract away a lot of the plumbing required to write cloud-hosted code that reacts to an event (e.g. an HTTP request, a message in a Queue, etc.). Because Event Hubs are different type of queue, I was intrigued to do a little deeper dive into using Azure Functions as a consumer-- particularly since on this surface this seems like a great fit. First, ensure you have your Event Hub setup and that you have something pushing messages to it (I used messages from chat client, but that's a story for another day). Second, setup your Azure Function App... Read more →