&gt; Is there a way to see what this password is and/or change it?

Click the link in `Azure portal -&gt; Your Website -&gt; Dashboard -&gt; Quick glance -&gt; Download the publish profile`.

![See Azure deployment password][1]

Download the file and your publishing password should be there in plain text in form `userPWD=&quot;7vasdfa....&quot;`.

If you want to reset that you can click the link `Azure portal -&gt; Your Website -&gt; Dashboard -&gt; Quick glance -&gt; Reset your publish profile credentials`. 

  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/OpD9m.png

For the same solution as Kaspars Ozols presented but for the new Azure Portal you can go to the Web app in question and click the &quot;Get publishing profile&quot;

[![enter image description here][1]][1]


  [1]: http://i.stack.imgur.com/mqKKb.png

Updating thread since it is now 9/2018.

Goto Azure Portal -&gt; Dashboard -&gt; App Service (that you are deploying to) -&gt; Get publish profile (in the top middle of browser)

Once you have the file downloaded, look for the userPWD arg.

No it is not the same. Reason is pretty clear - security concern! 

My &quot;Azure Admin Password&quot; is to manage all my Azure Resources. While when I publish a web site to Azure I would expect to have some other credentials, that do not have to all my azure services.

What you see there is a `Deployment Credential`. This is best explained in the [Wiki Page for the Kudu Project][1]. Note that Azure Web Sites run [Kudu][2].


  [1]: https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Deployment-credentials
  [2]: https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu

I come up with this

    n=1;
    curAvg = 0;
    loop{
      curAvg = curAvg + (newNum - curAvg)/n;
      n++;
    }
I think highlights of this way are:&lt;br&gt;
- It avoids big numbers (and possible overflow if you would sum and then divide)&lt;br&gt;
- you save one register (not need to store sum)

The trouble might be with summing error - but I assume that generally there shall be balanced numbers of round up and round down so the error shall not sum up dramatically.

Do you see any pitfalls in this solution?
Have you any better proposal?

How to efficiently compute average on the fly (moving average)?

How do I make body optional in REST API calls when using `@RequestBody` annotation in Spring?

With Spring&#39;s latest version, if you use `@RequestBody` annotation, it makes client to send body all the time without making it optional. 

I tried `@RequestBody (required=false)` but that didn&#39;t work &amp; still my request comes as null.

How do I manage to get request converted to proper required object without making body mandatory?

For eg:

    @RequestMapping(value=&quot;/add/employee&quot;, method=RequestMethod.POST)
    public void addEmployee(@RequestBody Employee employee){
        // ...
    }

Here, I want to add employee using POST but without body. How do I do that? Spring latest version throws error &quot;body missing&quot; if I send empty body...


Use @RequestBody with optional body in latest Spring v4

For whatever reason when I published my server for the first time to Azure some really long password was generated for me that for whatever reason I didn&#39;t think would be an issue. 

Apparently I need this to publish to my server.

http://i.imgur.com/w5K1ySZ.png

It does not match my Azure server admin password which I can easily change from the management portal. Is there a way to see what this password is and/or change it?

Web Publish password not the same as my Azure admin password?

For whatever reason when I published my server for the first time to Azure some really long password was generated for me that for whatever reason I didn't think would be an issue.
Apparently I need this to publish to my server.
<a href="http://i.imgur.com/w5K1ySZ.png" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://i.imgur.com/w5K1ySZ.png</a>
It does not match my Azure server admin password which I can easily change from the management portal. Is there a way to see what this password is and/or change it?

I&#39;m doing some experiments with VNext + OSX + Chrome. I&#39;m trying to get a woff2 file

    GET http://localhost:5003/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.3.0 
    
But an error occur. See the request&#39;s header below 

    Remote Address:127.0.0.1:5003
    Request URL:http://localhost:5003/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.3.0
    Request Method:GET
    Status Code:404 Not Found

This is my Startup.cs

        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)
        {
            app.UseStaticFiles();

            app.UseServices(services =&gt;
            {
                services.AddMvc();
            });

            // Add MVC to the request pipeline
            app.UseMvc(routes =&gt;
            {
                routes.MapRoute(
                    name: &quot;default&quot;,
                    template: &quot;{controller}/{action}/{id?}&quot;,
                    defaults: new { controller = &quot;Home&quot;, action = &quot;Index&quot; });
            });
        }

I saw inside AspNet project at Github about StaticFiles (Link bellow) and it seems to be supported.

https://github.com/aspnet/StaticFiles/blob/dev/src/Microsoft.AspNet.StaticFiles/FileExtensionContentTypeProvider.cs

Can you guys give me some help?

application/font-woff2 not working when using Asp.Net VNext

I have list of objects of following class:

    public class Catagory
    {
        int catagoryId;
        string catagoryNameHindi;
        string catagoryNameEnglish;
        List&lt;Object&gt; subCatagories;
        public Catagory(int Id, string NameHindi, string NameEng,List&lt;Object&gt; l)
        {
            this.catagoryId = Id;
            this.catagoryNameHindi = NameHindi;
            this.catagoryNameEnglish = NameEng;
            this.subCatagories = l;
        }
    }

      public class SubCatagory
    {
        int subCatagoryId { get; set; }
        string subCatNameHindi { get; set; }
        string subCatNameEng { get; set; }

        public SubCatagory(int Id, string NameHindi, string NameEng)
        {
            this.subCatagoryId = Id;
            this.subCatNameEng = NameEng;
            this.subCatNameHindi = NameHindi;
        }
    }

when I am converting this list to json string by using Newtonsoft.Json it returns array of empty objects.

      string json=JsonConvert.SerializeObject(list);

I am getting following result.

&gt;  [{},{},{},{},{}]

Please help me regarding this problem.

Newtonsoft.Json serialization returns empty json object

In Web API 2, you used to be able to create an endpoint to issue a token by setting up an OAuth Authorization Server via middleware like below:

    //Set up our auth server options.
    var OAuthServerOptions = new OAuthAuthorizationServerOptions()
                {
                    AllowInsecureHttp = true,
                    TokenEndpointPath = new PathString(&quot;/token&quot;),
                    AccessTokenExpireTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromDays(1),
                    Provider = new SimpleAuthorizationServerProvider()
                };
     
     // Sets up the token issue endpoint using the options above
     app.UseOAuthAuthorizationServer(OAuthServerOptions);


Perhaps I&#39;m missing it, but I&#39;m trying to figure out how to do this in ASP.NET Core.  I&#39;ve looked through the source ([https://github.com/aspnet/Security][1]) but I don&#39;t really see anything analogous.  Is there a new way to accomplish this?  Do I need to just create a controller and do it myself?

I see how OAuth Authentication can be set up via Middleware, but this regards the authorization portion where I issue claims from my API.


  [1]: https://github.com/aspnet/Security

OAuth Authorization Service in ASP.NET Core

I have a C# ASP.NET WebAPI application with API documentation being automatically generated using [**Swashbuckle**][1].  I want to be able to **omit certain methods** from the documentation but I can&#39;t seem to work out how to tell Swagger not to include them in the Swagger UI output.  

I sense it is something to do with **adding a model or schema filter** but it isn&#39;t obvious what to do and the documentation only seems to provide examples of how to modify the output for a method, not remove it completely from the output.



  [1]: https://github.com/domaindrivendev/Swashbuckle

How to omit methods from Swagger documentation on WebAPI using Swashbuckle

I&#39;m confused on the distinction between these terms:

 * ASP.NET 5 (now renamed ASP.NET Core and released as 1.0, not 5.0)
 * ASP.NET Core 5
 * .NET Core

Can anyone briefly explain it?

What&#39;s the difference between ASP.NET 5, .NET Core, and ASP.NET Core 5?

As I recently started mingling around with `Windows Azure`, I&#39;ve came up to a situation where, which one to go for between the `Block Blob` &amp; `Page Blob`. I&#39;m currently in progress of uploading some text, csv or dat files to a blob storage and then do a `MapReduce` program for it using my C# program. Yes I&#39;ve gone through an [article][2]. 

But couldn&#39;t get a clear idea from them. To cut short, `Block Blob vs Page Blob`. Any help would be appreciated.


  [1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/04/11/using-windows-azure-page-blobs-and-how-to-efficiently-upload-and-download-page-blobs.aspx
  [2]: https://sites.google.com/a/cloudenablers.com/blog/windowsazure/block-blob-page-blob

Differences between Azure Block Blob and Page Blob?

After successfully upgrading my cloud service to the new &quot;Azure SDK for .NET **2.5.1**&quot; I got the following error when trying packaging/publishing.

&gt; Could not load file or assembly &#39;Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Packaging,
&gt; Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35&#39; or
&gt; one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file
&gt; specified.	C:\Program Files
&gt; (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\Windows Azure
&gt; Tools\2.5\Microsoft.WindowsAzure.targets

The related line in the &quot;Microsoft.WindowsAzure.targets&quot; config file is **2930** which obviously is related to CSPack.

&lt;!-- language: lang-xml --&gt;

    &lt;CSPack
      ServiceDefinitionFile=&quot;@(TargetServiceDefinition)&quot;
      Output=&quot;@(PublishServicePackage)&quot;
      PackRoles=&quot;@(Roles)&quot;
      SiteMapping=&quot;@(SiteMapping)&quot;
      RoleProperties=&quot;@(RoleProperties)&quot;
      ImportedModules=&quot;@(ImportedModules)&quot;
      CopyOnly=&quot;false&quot;
      &gt;
    &lt;/CSPack&gt;

So I went on to create a fresh new Azure Cloud service in a fresh new project to see if something went wrong with the upgrade. Unfortunately the problem persists. 

Is there a workaround or will I have to rollback to v2.4 (that will cause me significant amount of pain)

I am running on VS 2013 update 4.

Azure SDK 2.5.1 fails to Publish cloudService

When I am querying from database in continuous looping, after some time 
I get an error :

&gt; An exception has been raised that is likely due to a transient
&gt; failure. If you are connecting to a SQL Azure database consider using SqlAzureExecutionStrategy.

Normally it is working fine.


Error when connect database continuously

After upgrading the SDK to Azure Cloud Service Diagnostic 2.6, all the WAD trace logs started to look like this:

    EventName=&quot;FormattedMessageEvent&quot; FormattedMessage=&quot;Subscription {0} Already Created&quot; Argument0=&quot;sub2feature-staging&quot; TraceSource=&quot;w3wp.exe&quot;

Previously it use to just write out `&quot;Subscription sub2feature-staging Already Created&quot; TraceSource=&quot;w3wp.exe&quot;`

Is this something I can configure? Also looks like a lot of messages has moved from information to verbose. 

It&#39;s probably a combination of my log provider and some changes done in Azure Cloud Service Diagnostic 2.6. 

Azure Cloud Service Diagnostic output changed with 2.6 SDK

I&#39;m spending my evenings evaluating Azure Service Fabric as a replacement for our current WebApps/CloudServices stack, and feel a little bit unsure about how to decide when services/actors with state should be stateful actors, and when they should be stateless actors with externally persisted state (Azure SQL, Azure Storage and DocumentDB). I know this is a fairly new product (to the general public at least), so there&#39;s probably not a lot of best practices in regards to this yet, but I&#39;ve read through most of the [documentation](http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/service-fabric/) made available by Microsoft without finding a definite answer for this.

The current problem domain I&#39;m approaching is our event store; parts of our applications are based on event sourcing and CQRS, and I&#39;m evaluating how to move this event store over to the Service Fabric platform. The event store is going to contain a lot time series-data, and as it&#39;s our only source of truth for the data being persisted there it must be consistent, replicated and stored to some form of durable storage.

One way I have considered doing this is with stateful &quot;EventStream&quot; actor; each instance of an aggregate using event sourcing stores its events within an isolated stream. This means the stateful actor could keep track of all the events for its own stream, and I&#39;d have met my requirements as to how the data is stored (transactional, replicated and durable). However, some streams may grow very large (hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of events), and this is where I&#39;m starting to get unsure. Having an actor with a large amount of state will, I imagine, have impacts on the performance of the system when these large data models needs to be serialized to or deserialized from disk.

Another option is to keep these actors stateless, and have them just read their data from some external storage like Azure SQL - or just go with stateless services instead of actors.

Basically, when is the amount of state for an actor/service &quot;too much&quot; and you should start considering other ways of handling state?

Also, this section in the [Service Fabric Actors design pattern: Some anti-patterns](http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/service-fabric-reliable-actors-anti-patterns/) documentation leave me a little bit puzzled:

&gt; Treat Azure Service Fabric Actors as a transactional system. Azure Service Fabric Actors is not a two phase commit-based system offering ACID. If we do not implement the optional persistence, and the machine the actor is running on dies, its current state will go with it. The actor will be coming up on another node very fast, but unless we have implemented the backing persistence, the state will be gone. However, between leveraging retries, duplicate filtering, and/or idempotent design, you can achieve a high level of reliability and consistency.

What does &quot;if we do not implement the optional persistance&quot; indicate here? I was under the impression that as long as your transaction modifying the state succeeded, your data was persisted to durable storage and replicated to at least a subset of the replicas. This paragraph leaves me wondering if there are situations where state within my actors/services will get lost, and if this is something I need to handle myself. The impression I got from the stateful model in other parts of the documentation seems to counteract this statement.

Content Type	Original Author	Original Content on Stackoverflow
Question	starlord7	View Question on Stackoverflow
Solution 1 - asp.net	Kaspars Ozols	View Answer on Stackoverflow
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Solution 3 - asp.net	Jeff Blumenthal	View Answer on Stackoverflow
Solution 4 - asp.net	astaykov	View Answer on Stackoverflow

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