TrustSharePoint: Notes from SPC14: Building SharePoint Apps with Windows Azure "Platform as a Service"

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Notes from SPC14: Building SharePoint Apps with Windows Azure "Platform as a Service"

Tuesday March 4, 2014 1:45-3:00pm

Speakers: Kirk Evans

Developer Session

I attended a great session today by Kirk Evans on using Windows Azure "Platform as a Service" features to build SharePoint Apps. Most of it was live demos, which is hard to take notes on, but here are a few random notes. See the bottom for a link to his blog.

When building apps, you are not building them for just 1 customer - you are building it for multiple customers and it will need to scale
Install the Azure SDK in Visual Studio - you get a new Azure node in the project tree

Azure Web Sites - can access through the Azure node in Visual Studio

Can get failed event tracing from here

Remote debugging supported in Azure Management Portal

Download Publish Profile - same as web deploy

Right click on project, select Publish

Asks for a profile

Important concepts to know:

Client ID
Client Secret

Generated in Azure - save them
These values get inserted into web.config as part of web deploy process

When deploying to Azure, must use HTTPS
App Packaging - during packaging process you must select if you trust the app or not, and what operations is it allowed to perform (read, write, etc.)
When deploying SharePoint App to Azure, you can choose the web site mode and how to scale the site as load increases

Components Making Up Windows Azure Platform as a Service