Installing a WIF Runtime for hosting a .NET application in Windows Azure

Question

I developed a Custom application that is able to consume the CRM Web services and perform Windows Live Id authentication, create, read and update operation in the CRM from the c

Answer 1

If you are deploying this to Windows Azure then make sure "copy local" is set to true on the Microsoft.IdentityModel when you deploy to Azure.

-----------**Update**----------------------------

Cloud Tip #9-Add Microsoft.IdentityModel to the GAC with a Startup Task

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/benko/archive/2012/04/07/cloud-tip-9-add-microsoft-identitymodel-to-the-gac-with-a-startup-task.aspx

This should help...

Answer 2

What do you mean by "was unable to add RegisterDLL.cmd to my project solution"? In Visual Studio, just follow these steps:

1. Right click on your project
2. Choose Add > New Item > Text File

3. Enter the following code (from the blog post):

   @echo off
   sc config wuauserv start= demand
   wusa.exe "Windows6.1-KB974405-x64.msu" /quiet /norestart
   sc config wuauserv start= disabled
   exit /b 0
   

4. Rename the file to RegisterDLL.cmd

5. In the properties, set Copy to Output Directory to Copy always
6. Go to File > Save as. On the Save button, click the small arrow and choose Save with Encoding
7. Choose Unicode (UTF-8 without signature) - Codepage 65001

This should be enough to have a working file. Now follow the rest of the guide and redeploy your application.

Answer 3

Well,

You can use what Sandrino suggests, but you can also use this powershell script. I use it in couple of project and it works fine. It also auto-recognizes Windows Version (because for Azure Guest OS Family 1.xx you have to use the Windows6.0-xxxxx, and for Guest OS Family 2.xx you have to use Windows6.1-xxx version of the KB update).

You can execute that powershell script in a very simple startup task. Create one setup.cmd file, that you have the following content:

@echo off
powershell -command "Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted" 2>> err.out
powershell .\Install-WIF-OnAzure.ps1 2>> err.out

And run it as simple startup task:

 <WebRole name="AzureAndWif" vmsize="Small">
    <Startup>
      <Task commandLine="setup.cmd" executionContext="elevated" />
    </Startup>
   ...
 </WebRole>

Hope this also helps ;)