ASP.NET 5 web application as Azure Web Role?

Question

We have a ASP.NET 5 web application in our solution.

Typically, we could right click on the Cloud Service "Roles" item and add a new role from an existing project in the solution.

But it cannot identity this project as a Web Role:

How are we able to host a ASP.NET 5 project in a Azure Web Role?

Edit: We are using Azure SDK 2.7

Answer 1

Sorry, we don't support WebRoles at the moment. You might* be able to hack your way around but officially there is no support. That means that any hack you do, will be in a text editor, not from tooling.

However, you can use an Azure WebSite instead. That's fully supported.

* it might not work at all. I am not aware of anyone who did this.

Answer 2

You probably have to build your package yourself using CSPack. Here an example using PowerShell and CSPack:

# path to cspack
$cspackPath = Join-Path $env:ProgramFiles 'Microsoft SDKs\Azure\.NET SDK\v2.7\bin\cspack.exe'

$PackagePath = 'c:\mycloudpackage.cspkg'
$serviceDefinitionFile = 'c:\myProject\ServiceDefinition.csdef'
$webRoleName = 'MyWebRole'
$webRolePath = 'c:\myProject'
$webRoleEntryPoint = 'MyWebRole.dll'

# define the cspack parameters
$cspackParameter = @(
        "/out:$PackagePath",
        $serviceDefinitionFile,
        "/role:$webRoleName;$webRolePath;$webRoleEntryPoint",
        "/sites:$webRoleName;Web;$webRolePath"
    )

# execute cspack
& $cspackExe @cspackParameter

It also allows you to host multiple sites on a single web role.