Read configuration settings from azure cloud service with .NET C#

Question

I am searching for a way to read settings from a deployed windows azure cloud service with C#. Is there any Azure SDK available to easily load this values?

Screenshot from Azure Portal to show which settings i want to read:

[EDIT1]

I missed to add that I tried to load the settings from an external application and not from the service it self.

In light of the edit, I've removed my answer. I'm not sure about how you can do that - sorry. — ProgrammingLlama, Apr 19 '17 at 08:15
Technically possible as Bruce answered, but why would you want to do that? seems like an incorrect approach to share configuration.. — yonisha, Apr 21 '17 at 12:22

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 20 '17 at 08:35

According to your description, I assumed that you could leverage Microsoft Azure Management Libraries to retrieve the configuration settings, you could follow the steps below:

Create a new self-signed certificate
Export the cert to a .cer file and upload it to your azure subscription, for more details, you could follow this tutorial

I created a console application and reference the Microsoft Azure Management Libraries, here is the core code:

private static X509Certificate2 GetStoreCertificate(string thumbprint)
{
  List<StoreLocation> locations = new List<StoreLocation>
  { 
    StoreLocation.CurrentUser, 
    StoreLocation.LocalMachine
  };

  foreach (var location in locations)
  {
    X509Store store = new X509Store("My", location);
    try
    {
      store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly | OpenFlags.OpenExistingOnly);
      X509Certificate2Collection certificates = store.Certificates.Find(
        X509FindType.FindByThumbprint, thumbprint, false);
      if (certificates.Count == 1)
      {
        return certificates[0];
      }
    }
    finally
    {
      store.Close();
    }
  }
  throw new ArgumentException(string.Format(
    "A Certificate with Thumbprint '{0}' could not be located.",
    thumbprint));
}

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    CertificateCloudCredentials credential = new CertificateCloudCredentials("{subscriptionId}", GetStoreCertificate("{thumbprint}"));
    using (var computeClient = new ComputeManagementClient(credential))
    {
        var result = computeClient.HostedServices.GetDetailed("{your-cloudservice-name}");
        var productionDeployment=result.Deployments.Where(d => d.DeploymentSlot == DeploymentSlot.Production).FirstOrDefault();
    }
    Console.WriteLine("press any key to exit...");
    Console.ReadKey();
}

You could retrieve the configuration settings from productionDeployment.Configuration as follows:

Read configuration settings from azure cloud service with .NET C#

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