Deploy Visual Studio Solution To Azure Web App Using PowerShell

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Azure Subscription (MSDN subscribers or sign up for one month free trial).
• Visual Studio 2013 or Visual Studio 2015. To download Web installer or ISO file, please Click Here.
• Windows PowerShell. To download PowerShell Click here.

• About PowerShell commands Regarding Azure Web app.
• How to create Publish Visual Studio Solution as a File System.
• How to publish local zip file to Azure Web app.

To learn about how to Configure Azure subscription to PowerShell & how to create, check availability of the name, delete & run Web app on Microsoft Azure, please refer to:

Azure PowerShell Commands for Web App

Step 1

Create an Azure Web app, using PowerShell.

New-AzureWebsite -Location "South India" -Name "azurewebapppsdemo"

Note

Wait for a few seconds to create a Web app.

Step 2

Start Visual Studio & create a New Project.

Step 3

Choose “Empty” ASP.NET Template & click OK button.

 

Step 4

Right click on the Project Name -> Add -> New Item.

Step 5

Add HTML page file & name it as index.html.

Note

You can also add Web form or any other page.

Step 6

Add some text into index.html file. 

Step 7

Now, right-click on the project name & click Publish option.

Step 8

The different options are available as a publish target but we are selecting Custom option.

Enter Profile name. Ex. WebApp.

Change Publish method to File System. Also, set Target location.

Create new folder to publish the project.

Click Next button.

Configuration: Release.

Check Delete all the existing files prior to publish option.

Click Publish button.

Wait for a  few seconds to publish the project.

Step 9

Run PowerShell & enter the command given below to build the project.

msbuild E:\Azure\webapp01\WebApplication1\WebApplication1.sln /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:PublishProfile=WebApp /p:VisualStudioVersion=14.0

Note

Enter the solution path with an extension like .sln,

If “Build Succeeded”, go to next step, else please check for the error.

Step 10

Now, we will upload or publish the local folder to Cloud.

$source = "E:\Azure\webapppublish"

Note

Project published folder path as a source.

$destination = "E:\Azure\webapppublish.zip"

Note

Enter new .zip file name as a destination.

Add-Type -assembly "system.io.compression.filesystem"

[io.compression.zipfile]::CreateFromDirectory($source,$destination)

Note

Create a new directory, using the command

Now you have .zip file or website package file to publish as AzureWebApp

Publish-AzureWebsiteProject -Package E:\Azure\webapppublish.zip -Name azurewebapppsdemo

Step 11

Website content successfully deployed on Ccloud. Now, run AzureWebApp

Show-AzureWebsite -Name azurewebapppsdemo

Automatically, the Browser will open Azure Web app.

Congratulations! You have successfully deployed Visual Studio Project to Azure Web App on Microsoft Azure.