I've recently started doing some experimenting to gain experience with ASP.NET MVC. My commercial experience has been with WinForms, so it's proving a challenge (but interesting)
My starting point has been to use a guide from Microsoft:
MVC Getting Started
The guide is written with ASP.NET Core in mind, however, I'm using .NET 4.5. I've found some differences with the way HML is generated (HttpUtility.HtmlEncode) but nothing too major.
I've created an ASP.NET MVC5 project and started to play around with adding new controllers. The strange thing I've noticed is that the NAvBar is not visible:
The strange thing is that (when running with Chrome), I can see and interact with the NavBar
I've created a fresh project to make sure that none of the changes I made were responsible, "out of the box" I see the same behavior.
The following NuGet packages are installed in the project:
<package id="Antlr" version="3.5.0.2" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="bootstrap" version="3.3.7" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="DanielSnowden.CommonLibrary" version="1.0.0.4" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="jQuery" version="3.1.1" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="jQuery.Validation" version="1.16.0" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights" version="2.2.0" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Agent.Intercept" version="2.0.7" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.DependencyCollector" version="2.2.0" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.PerfCounterCollector" version="2.2.0" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Web" version="2.2.0" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer" version="2.2.0" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.WindowsServer.TelemetryChannel" version="2.2.0" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc" version="5.2.3" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Razor" version="3.2.3" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Web.Optimization" version="1.1.3" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages" version="3.2.3" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform" version="1.0.3" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.jQuery.Unobtrusive.Validation" version="3.2.3" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Microsoft.Net.Compilers" version="2.0.1" targetFramework="net452" developmentDependency="true" />
<package id="Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure" version="1.0.0.0" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Modernizr" version="2.8.3" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="10.0.2" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="Respond" version="1.4.2" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="WebGrease" version="1.6.0" targetFramework="net452" />
All packages appear to be up to data as I can't see any updates. I've tried viewing the website (through IIS local) in both Chrome and Edge. My Visual Studio version is 2017 (Community) and I'm running on a Windows 10 host.
I've tried to research the issue, but can't seem to find much information. However, I suspect that (as usual) I'm overlooking something perfectly obvious.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
The NavBar is a feature only visible in the mobile layout.
Chrome provides the ability to simulate viewing on a number of different mobile devices. When inspecting elements, Chrome was defaulting to one of these devices.
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I have an ASP.NET MVC 5 project. It works fine, but every time I add a view (which successfully gets created) and then when I build solution I get error
This project references NuGet package(s) that are missing on this computer. Use NuGet Package Restore to download them. For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=322105. The missing file is packages\EntityFramework.6.4.4\build\EntityFramework.props.
I have to update (goes back to 6.1.3 version every time) Entity Framework which annoys me a lot. is there anything I can do to to solve this permanently?
Edit: here are all packages that uses targetframework=net472
<package id="Antlr" version="3.5.0.2" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="bootstrap" version="3.3.4" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="EntityFramework" version="6.4.4" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="FontAwesome" version="4.7.0" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="jQuery" version="3.6.0" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="jquery.datatables" version="1.10.15" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="jQuery.UI.Combined" version="1.13.1" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="jQuery.Validation" version="1.19.4" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc" version="5.2.9" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Razor" version="3.2.9" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Web.Optimization" version="1.1.3" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages" version="3.2.9" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform" version="3.6.0" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="Microsoft.jQuery.Unobtrusive.Ajax" version="3.1.2" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="Microsoft.jQuery.Unobtrusive.Validation" version="3.2.12" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="Microsoft.Owin" version="4.2.2" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure" version="2.0.0" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="Modernizr" version="2.8.3" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="13.0.1" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="Owin" version="1.0" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="PasswordHashTool" version="1.0.0" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="popper.js" version="1.16.1" targetFramework="net472" />
<package id="WebGrease" version="1.6.0" targetFramework="net472" />
Try to make the following steps:
Exit from the Visual Studio.
Remove the EntityFramework... folder from the packages
Remove <package id="EntityFramework" version="6.4.4" targetFramework="net472" /> line from the packages.config file using a text editor.
Open the solution and add the required package EntityFramework.6.4.4 again using the NuGet Package Manager.
NOTE: Watch closely to the installation log. Probably you will see
error related to the version conflict.
I have an ASP.NET MVC application which started to misbehave after the last NuGet package updates. The web app uses .NET Framework 4.6.1, and the developer machine is a Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. One package I use is Stripe.NET for payment processing. Its earlier versions required only <package id="System.Net.Http" version="4.0.0" targetFramework="net461" />. Visual Studio marked that there's a newer version of that (at that time it was 4.3.0), but when I updated that it pulled in a ton of packages. So I simply reverted back that dependency to 4.0.0, Stripe didn't require newer.
Then lately I introduced Nager.Date to handle work days and holidays. The latest update (v 1.5.0) of that package requires "NETStandard.Library" version="1.6.1". Just like upgrading System.Net.Http to 4.3.0, upgrading to that Nager.Date pulls in the ton of packages I mention. In summary: sooner or later I have to cave in and update.
The pulled-in packages:
<package id="Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="Microsoft.Win32.Primitives" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.AppContext" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Collections" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Collections.Concurrent" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Console" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Diagnostics.Debug" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Diagnostics.Tools" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Diagnostics.Tracing" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Globalization" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Globalization.Calendars" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.IO" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.IO.Compression" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.IO.Compression.ZipFile" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.IO.FileSystem" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.IO.FileSystem.Primitives" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Linq" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Linq.Expressions" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Net.Http" version="4.3.1" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Net.Primitives" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Net.Sockets" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.ObjectModel" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Reflection" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Reflection.Extensions" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Reflection.Primitives" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Resources.ResourceManager" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Runtime" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Runtime.Extensions" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Runtime.Handles" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Runtime.InteropServices" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Runtime.Numerics" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Security.Cryptography.Encoding" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Security.Cryptography.Primitives" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Text.Encoding" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Text.Encoding.Extensions" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Text.RegularExpressions" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Threading" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Threading.Tasks" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Threading.Timer" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Xml.ReaderWriter" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
<package id="System.Xml.XDocument" version="4.3.0" targetFramework="net461" />
I would still be in peace with all of this if in the end I won't be presented with:
Exception thrown: 'System.MissingMethodException' in ThruThink.dll
Additional information: Method not found: 'Void System.Web.Http.HttpResponseException..ctor(System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage)'.
I couldn't figure out why this happened. Nager.Date owner gave me an idea: he generated the latest package with VS 2017, so I installed that hoping that it'll install some assemblies which will magically solve this exception. But that didn't happen so far.
I don't understand the list of these packages. A lot of them are foundational libraries which supposed to be part of the CLR itself (like System.IO, System.Console, ...) and available without a NuGet package. Maybe one clue is that I see Microsoft.NETCore.Platforms, although I'm with .NET 4.6.1, not using .NET Core. I haven't played with .NET Core too much yet, but those packages make sense for .NET Core infrastructure. What's going on?
The newest version of Nager.Date didn't pull in all of those dependencies and I don't face this problem any more.
You're hitting System.Net.Http OOB versioning issue, see Broken System.Net.Http 4.1.1-4.3.0 post-mortem. An assembly redirect should fix the problem:
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Net.Http" culture="neutral" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.2.0.0" newVersion="4.2.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
You may need to redirect to 4.1.1.2 or 4.0.0.0 instead, depending on your project and the libraries you reference.
I am getting some strange error while configuring Autofac on ASP.MVC 4. I have worked with Autofac on MVC 4 on many other projects successfully. This MVC project is in .Net 4.5.2 and I am referencing the following Autofac libraries from nuget:
Autofac version=3.5.2
Autofac.Mvc4 version=3.1.0
The error that I am getting is:
"Inheritance security rules violated while overriding member: 'Autofac.Integration.Mvc.AutofacDependencyResolver.GetService(System.Type)'. Security accessibility of the overriding method must match the security accessibility of the method being overriden."
The weird thing is that my code is even not called that this error is fired!! My code is as below:
protected void Application_Start()
{
AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();
FilterConfig.RegisterGlobalFilters(GlobalFilters.Filters);
RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);
BundleConfig.RegisterBundles(BundleTable.Bundles);
try
{
AutofacDependencyResolverHelper.RegisterAutofac();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Trace.Write(ex.Message);
throw;
}
}
public class AutofacDependencyResolverHelper
{
public static void RegisterAutofac()
{
var container = GetContainer();
DependencyResolver.SetResolver(new AutofacDependencyResolver(container));
}
public static IContainer GetContainer()
{
var assemblies = new List<Assembly>();
assemblies.Add(Assembly.Load("Core.Infrastructure"));
assemblies.Add(Assembly.Load("Core.GenericRepository"));
assemblies.Add(Assembly.Load("Core.Common"));
assemblies.Add(Assembly.Load("CRM.Interfaces"));
assemblies.Add(Assembly.Load("CRM.Data"));
assemblies.Add(Assembly.Load("CRM.Dtos"));
assemblies.Add(Assembly.Load("CRM.Entities"));
assemblies.Add(Assembly.Load("CRM.Business"));
var builder = new ContainerBuilder();
builder.RegisterAssemblyTypes(assemblies.ToArray()).AsImplementedInterfaces();
builder.RegisterControllers(Assembly.Load("CRM.Web.Mvc4"));
var container = builder.Build();
return container;
}
}
Not sure what this error is? Any comments will be appreciated. I have found some other questions but they are related to MVC5:
Solving Autofac issue Inheritance security rules violated while overriding member GetService
Updated with full config:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
<package id="angularjs.TypeScript.DefinitelyTyped" version="4.2.7" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="Antlr" version="3.4.1.9004" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="Autofac" version="3.5.2" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="Autofac.Mvc4" version="3.1.0" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="bootstrap" version="3.0.0" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="jQuery" version="1.10.2" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="jquery.TypeScript.DefinitelyTyped" version="0.0.1" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="jQuery.Validation" version="1.11.1" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc" version="5.2.3" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Razor" version="3.2.3" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Web.Optimization" version="1.1.3" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages" version="3.2.3" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="Microsoft.jQuery.Unobtrusive.Validation" version="3.2.3" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure" version="1.0.0.0" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="Modernizr" version="2.6.2" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="6.0.4" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="Respond" version="1.2.0" targetFramework="net46" />
<package id="WebGrease" version="1.5.2" targetFramework="net46" />
</packages>
Ok, found the issue. Even though it was an MVC4 application I added reference to Autofac MVC5 using nuget and that sorted out the issue. Ie:
package id="Autofac.Mvc5" version="3.3.4" targetFramework="net452"
Instead of:
package id="Autofac.Mvc4" version="3.1.0" targetFramework="net46"
Strange.but it worked!
I have a cloud service web role project that runs locally in the emulator, but does not run when deployed. The error given is as follows:
[ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: connectionString]
Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.CloudStorageAccount.Parse(String connectionString) in e:\projects\azure-sdk-for-net\microsoft-azure-api\Services\Storage\Lib\Common\CloudStorageAccount.cs:344
Candor.WindowsAzure.Storage.Table.CloudTableProxy`1.GetTable() in c:\Users\micha_000\Documents\GitHub\candor-common\Candor.WindowsAzure\Storage\Table\CloudTableProxy.cs:66
Candor.WindowsAzure.Storage.Table.CloudTableProxy`1.Get(String partitionKey, String rowKey) in c:\Users\micha_000\Documents\GitHub\candor-common\Candor.WindowsAzure\Storage\Table\CloudTableProxy.cs:117
Candor.WindowsAzure.Logging.Common.Table.CloudTableLogger.get_Configuration() +218
Candor.WindowsAzure.Logging.Common.Table.CloudTableLogger.get_IsInfoEnabled() +9
Common.Logging.Factory.AbstractLogger.Info(Object message) in c:\_oss\common-logging\src\Common.Logging.Core\Logging\Factory\AbstractLogger.cs:503
Candor.Configuration.Provider.ProviderCollection`1.SetActiveProvider(T provider) in c:\Users\micha_000\Documents\GitHub\candor-common\Candor\Configuration\Provider\ProviderCollection.cs:169
Candor.Configuration.Provider.ProviderResolver`1.AppendActive(T provider) in c:\Users\micha_000\Documents\GitHub\candor-common\Candor\Configuration\Provider\ProviderResolver.cs:77
SHM.PublicMvcWeb.App_Start.ProviderBootstrapper.InitProviders() in c:\Users\micha_000\Documents\Git-Repos\shm-main\SHM.PublicMvcWeb\App_Start\ProviderBootstrapper.cs:23
SHM.PublicMvcWeb.App_Start.ProviderBootstrapper.PostStartup() in c:\Users\micha_000\Documents\Git-Repos\shm-main\SHM.PublicMvcWeb\App_Start\ProviderBootstrapper.cs:18
You can see the code for the relevant lines shown in the stack trace on github.
https://github.com/michael-lang/candor-common/
The lines leading to the error in CloudTableProxy are:
if (String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(_connectionName))
throw new InvalidOperationException("The Cloud ConnectionName has not been configured.");
if (_account == null)
_account = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting(_connectionName));
Since it does not throw the custom error "The cloud connectionName has not been configured.", that tells me that _connectionName passed into CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting is not null. So CloudConfigurationManager is the call returning null for the supplied name. Given that this name does return a value when running locally, I am not sure why it isn't found when deployed to my cloud web role. If the connection name was entered as a typo, then it wouldn't work locally either. To be sure, here is my common logging configuration naming the connection to be used:
<common>
<logging>
<factoryAdapter type="Candor.WindowsAzure.Logging.Common.Table.CloudTableLoggerFactoryAdapter, Candor.WindowsAzure.Logging.Common">
<arg key="connectionName" value="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString" />
</factoryAdapter>
</logging>
</common>
I also have an entirely different solution with a cloud service web role using the same Candor.Common components, so I don't believe they are the problem.
I am using the same laptop to develop both solutions, and so both are using the Azure 2.2 Tools version. Inspecting the properties of the Cloud Service project in each solution verifies this.
I inspected every component and NuGet package reference to be sure there are no version mismatches through the solution. The same components are set to copy-local=true between the working solution and this non-working solution. They also have the same binding redirects. Although this was my biggest issue, now resolved, before running into this connection issue.
The non-working service deployment configuration:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ServiceConfiguration serviceName="SHM.AzureService.PublicMvcWeb" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ServiceHosting/2008/10/ServiceConfiguration" osFamily="4" osVersion="*" schemaVersion="2013-10.2.2">
<Role name="SHM.PublicMvcWeb">
<Instances count="1" />
<ConfigurationSettings>
<Setting name="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=(redacted);AccountKey=(redacted)" />
<Setting name="DefaultTableConnection" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=(redacted);AccountKey=(redacted)" />
<Setting name="UserTableConnection" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=(redacted);AccountKey=(redacted)" />
<Setting name="UserSaltTableConnection" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=(redacted);AccountKey=(redacted)" />
<Setting name="UserAuditTableConnection" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=(redacted);AccountKey=(redacted)" />
</ConfigurationSettings>
</Role>
</ServiceConfiguration>
I also recently tried putting these same connection names in the web application's appsettings. This was in response to a comment 3 years ago that their code was executing before RoleEnvironment.OnStart. But this attempt still results in the same error.
Here is what the attempt looked like:
<appSettings>
<add key="webpages:Version" value="3.0.0.0" />
<add key="webpages:Enabled" value="false" />
<add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true" />
<add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true" />
<add key="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Plugins.Diagnostics.ConnectionString" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=(redacted);AccountKey=(redacted)"/>
<add key="DefaultTableConnection" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=(redacted);AccountKey=(redacted)"/>
<add key="UserTableConnection" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=(redacted);AccountKey=(redacted)"/>
<add key="UserSaltTableConnection" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=(redacted);AccountKey=(redacted)"/>
<add key="UserAuditTableConnection" value="DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=(redacted);AccountKey=(redacted)"/>
</appSettings>
This code in error does run on start of the application using WebActivator 2.0.6, wheras my working solution uses WebActivator 2.0.4. But the release notes of WebActivator only shows compilation change from Debug to "Retail" and a license change between the two versions, and those changes were a year ago.
In case timing was the issue, I also tried adding a Thread.Sleep(1000) just before the call in error, and it didn't work either, so I am going to remove it.
using System.Threading;
using Candor.Configuration.Provider;
using Candor.Security;
using Candor.Security.Cryptography;
using Candor.Security.Web;
[assembly: WebActivatorEx.PreApplicationStartMethod(typeof(StopHarassingMe.PublicMvcWeb.App_Start.ProviderBootstrapper), "PreStartup")]
[assembly: WebActivatorEx.PostApplicationStartMethod(typeof(StopHarassingMe.PublicMvcWeb.App_Start.ProviderBootstrapper), "PostStartup")]
namespace SHM.PublicMvcWeb.App_Start
{
public class ProviderBootstrapper
{
public static void PreStartup()
{
}
public static void PostStartup()
{
Thread.Sleep(1000); //let RoleEnvironment finish startup first or connectionstrings are not available.
InitProviders();
}
private static void InitProviders()
{
ProviderResolver<HashProvider>.Configure()
.AppendActive(new SHA2HashProvider("sha2") { IsObsolete = false, SaltModifier = "" });
}
}
}
This is the first provider configured in both the working and non-working solutions.
Here is a list of the packages used by the web application in error:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
<package id="Antlr" version="3.5.0.2" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Candor.Core" version="1.4.1.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Candor.jQuery.AutoAsync" version="4.0.0.50129" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Candor.Security" version="2.4.0.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Candor.Security.AzureStorageProvider" version="2.3.2.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Candor.Web.Mvc" version="1.0.3.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Candor.Web.Mvc.ErrorHandler" version="1.0.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Candor.Web.Mvc.Security" version="2.1.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Candor.WindowsAzure" version="1.3.0.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Candor.WindowsAzure.Logging.Common" version="1.1.1.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Common.Logging" version="2.2.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Common.Logging.Core" version="2.2.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="form2js" version="1.0.0.30224" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="jQuery" version="2.1.4" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="jQuery.UI.Combined" version="1.8.20.1" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="jQuery.Validation" version="1.13.1" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="MarkdownSharp" version="1.13.0.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc" version="5.2.3" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Razor" version="3.2.3" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Web.Optimization" version="1.1.3" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi" version="5.2.3" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client" version="5.2.3" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Core" version="5.2.3" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.HelpPage" version="5.2.3" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.WebHost" version="5.2.3" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages" version="3.2.3" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.Data.Edm" version="5.6.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Microsoft.Data.OData" version="5.6.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Microsoft.jQuery.Unobtrusive.Validation" version="3.2.3" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure" version="1.0.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ConfigurationManager" version="2.0.1.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Modernizr" version="2.8.3" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="6.0.8" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Respond" version="1.4.2" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="RestSharp" version="105.0.1" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="System.Spatial" version="5.6.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="T4MVC" version="3.7.4" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="T4MVCExtensions" version="3.7.4" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Twilio" version="4.0.3" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Twilio.Mvc" version="3.1.15" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Twilio.TwiML" version="3.3.6" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="WebActivatorEx" version="2.0.6" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="WebGrease" version="1.6.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="WindowsAzure.Storage" version="2.1.0.3" targetFramework="net45" />
</packages>
There are a couple package differences between my working and non-working solution, but I didn't think these were applicable to the error. I went from MVC 5.0 to 5.2.3, upgraded javascript related packages, and Candor.WindowsAzure from 1.2.10 to 1.3. That may seem relevant, but the only code change was to replace the implementation of a batch update method.
WORKING SOLUTION PROJECT PACKAGES:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
<package id="Antlr" version="3.5.0.2" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Candor.Core" version="1.4.1.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Candor.jQuery.AutoAsync" version="3.5.0.40210" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Candor.Security" version="2.4.0.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Candor.Security.AzureStorageProvider" version="2.3.2.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Candor.Web.Mvc" version="1.0.3.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Candor.Web.Mvc.ErrorHandler" version="1.0.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Candor.Web.Mvc.Security" version="2.1.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Candor.WindowsAzure" version="1.2.10.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Candor.WindowsAzure.Logging.Common" version="1.1.1.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Common.Logging" version="2.2.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Common.Logging.Core" version="2.2.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="form2js" version="1.0.0.30224" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="jQuery" version="2.0.3" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="jQuery.UI.Combined" version="1.10.3" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="jQuery.Validation" version="1.11.1" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="MarkdownSharp" version="1.13.0.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc" version="5.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Razor" version="3.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Web.Optimization" version="1.1.2" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi" version="5.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client" version="5.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Core" version="5.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.HelpPage" version="5.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.OData" version="5.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.WebHost" version="5.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages" version="3.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.Data" version="3.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.WebData" version="3.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.Data.Edm" version="5.6.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.Data.OData" version="5.6.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.jQuery.Unobtrusive.Ajax" version="3.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.jQuery.Unobtrusive.Validation" version="3.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure" version="1.0.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ConfigurationManager" version="2.0.1.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Modernizr" version="2.7.1" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="5.0.8" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="SlidesJS" version="3.0.4" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="System.Spatial" version="5.6.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="T4MVC" version="3.7.4" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="T4MVCExtensions" version="3.7.4" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="WebActivatorEx" version="2.0.4" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="WebGrease" version="1.6.0" targetFramework="net451" />
<package id="WindowsAzure.Storage" version="2.1.0.3" targetFramework="net45" />
</packages>
I tried to deploy as a website just to see what the difference would be. The table connection strings were in appSettings from the earlier attempts to get past the timing issue, so it made sense to try the websites deployment option (not a cloud web role).
The error from this attempt was
[FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.]
[FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime, Version=2.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.]
Candor.WindowsAzure.Logging.Common.Table.CloudTableLogger.WriteInternal(LogLevel level, Object message, Exception exception) +0
Common.Logging.Factory.AbstractLogger.Info(Object message) in c:\_oss\common-logging\src\Common.Logging.Core\Logging\Factory\AbstractLogger.cs:504
Candor.Configuration.Provider.ProviderCollection`1.SetActiveProvider(T provider) in c:\Users\micha_000\Documents\GitHub\candor-common\Candor\Configuration\Provider\ProviderCollection.cs:166
Candor.Configuration.Provider.ProviderResolver`1.AppendActive(T provider) in c:\Users\micha_000\Documents\GitHub\candor-common\Candor\Configuration\Provider\ProviderResolver.cs:75
This was odd, since the other working solution web role deployed to the cloud now, has that reference set as CopyLocal=false. But when I set it to true in this non-working solution, it started to work in the website deployment.
Next I redeployed the cloud web role with this component set as CopyLocal=True and it now works. I don't know why this is required in one project deployment and not the other, While both projects required the other azure components to be CopyLocal=true.
There is still one lingering problem with startup speed, but I'll leave that for another question, if I don't figure it out. For some reason this smaller project goes in a busy/recycle loop after it starts, but the page loads now and then. It is quite odd since it has fewer dependencies initialized on startup, that is providers instantiated that write a single log entry each.
Straight point to the question is - CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting will read the given config key from Cloud Project settings if defined or else will fall back to actual project App Or Web config. So if you make sure that it exists at one of the places, it should work fine. As you confirmed that it is working locally, it should work exactly the same way even after deployment.
Other case that can happen is when you are having multiple config files for local and cloud deployment environments and that config could be missing from your cloud configuration file that you used to deploy into cloud.
In my case, I used SlowCheetah (NuGet package) to transform App.config files. In Debug it did not use the Transformation. Using the Debug settings in the "root"-config file solved my problem.
Installed the ELMAH NuGet package. Now, when I publish my ASP.NET MVC 4 project to Azure, it warns me that it wants my project to have a direct reference to System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll (so that the DLL, which is apparently referenced by ELMAH, is included in the bits uploaded to Azure).
I'm not using SQL Compact Edition for logging, so I assume that I don't really need that DLL (and, in fact, the Azure package works just fine without it).
So, how do I resolve this "missing DLL" issue? I could try to find and remove the part of ELMAH that references this DLL, but it would just come back the next time a new version of ELMAH is released. Since the DLL is apparently not in the GAC, I could add a reference to the copy of System.Data.SqlServerCe.dll that's stashed away under my C:\Program Files (X86) folder, but that smells ugly to me. Or I could just ignore the warning, but as a matter of principle (and published policy) I don't tolerate warnings lightly.
Any suggestions?
EDIT:
Daniel Powell asked me to post my NuGet packages.config, which looks like this (I hope - this is deeper magic than I've dug into)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
<package id="DotNetOpenAuth.AspNet" version="4.2.2.13055" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="DotNetOpenAuth.Core" version="4.2.2.13055" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="DotNetOpenAuth.OAuth.Consumer" version="4.2.2.13055" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="DotNetOpenAuth.OAuth.Core" version="4.2.2.13055" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="DotNetOpenAuth.OpenId.Core" version="4.2.2.13055" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="DotNetOpenAuth.OpenId.RelyingParty" version="4.2.2.13055" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="elmah" version="1.2.2" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="elmah.corelibrary" version="1.2.2" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="EntityFramework" version="5.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Glimpse" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Glimpse.AspNet" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Glimpse.Mvc3" version="1.1.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="jQuery" version="1.9.1" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="jQuery.UI.Combined" version="1.10.1" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="jQuery.Validation" version="1.11.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="knockoutjs" version="2.2.1" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="log4net" version="2.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc" version="4.0.20710.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Razor" version="2.0.20715.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.Web.Optimization" version="1.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi" version="4.0.20710.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client" version="4.0.20710.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Core" version="4.0.20710.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.WebHost" version="4.0.20710.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages" version="2.0.20710.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.Data" version="2.0.20710.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.OAuth" version="2.0.20710.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages.WebData" version="2.0.20710.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.Data.Edm" version="5.3.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.Data.OData" version="5.3.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.jQuery.Unobtrusive.Ajax" version="2.0.30116.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.jQuery.Unobtrusive.Validation" version="2.0.30116.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.Net.Http" version="2.0.20710.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure" version="1.0.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ConfigurationManager" version="1.8.0.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Modernizr" version="2.6.2" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="Newtonsoft.Json" version="4.5.11" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="System.Spatial" version="5.3.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="WebGrease" version="1.3.0" targetFramework="net45" />
<package id="WindowsAzure.Storage" version="2.0.5.0" targetFramework="net45" />
</packages>
I've been running a service on Azure for many months with this same warning. If you're sure you're not using SQL Server CE it's fine.
It is an annoying warning but as far as I can tell does no harm.