I am re-learning some forgotten skills and started off by creating a simple MVC 5.0 web application deployed to Azure with a SQL Server backend. I then thought it would be fun to run some reports - this was a challenge as you need to use GDI+ and have extended privelages (AZURE Hosting & MVC5 Reporting), to get around this I thought I had converted my Web Application into a Web Role, but it would appear all I did was to create a Web Role that "hosts" my web application. I have made this assumption as I have a Startup.cs and no WebRole.cs in the root of the Web Application project.
So the Web Application is running very nicely and I would now like to extend the functionality to email on a schedule. Luckily, there is a tutorial for this (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-dotnet-multi-tier-app-storage-3-web-role/) which I have been following unfortunately due to my actions above I think something has gone wrong in my conversion and I am now stuck! I think this as I included the WebRole.cs in the root folder of my Web Application (Add WebRole.cs - and have it called - in an existing ASP.NET MVC site converted to web role), however, when I placed a breakpoint in the file it did not break/stop.
One of my problems is I dont know what I have implemented incorrectly as I am using the icons in the solution explorer to understand what is what and they seem to correspond to the sample email solution. As the reports require GDI+ and this is only available when using a web role I have to assume that is working correctly as my reports are generating in Azure. The other behaviour which I noticed is that when running the sample it loads the storage emulator, however, once I have made my changes to my project the storage emulator does not load?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers
David
EDIT: Ok I remember what I did now, in the solution explorer I right clicked the project and went convert to Azure this created a role in the .Azure project
