WPF and Squirrel deployment on Azure

Question

I have an application written in WPF (C#) and I deploy this application using Squirrel:

https://intellitect.com/deploying-app-squirrel/

Now I build application using these commands:

.\nuget pack nuget\HelloWorld.nuspec
Squirrel --releasify HelloWorld.1.0.0.nupkg --releaseDir "C:\SquirrelReleases"

on my local machine. But my application is stored in Azure. How to make deployment using Squirrel on Azure?

Answer 1

How to make deployment using Squirrel on Azure?

Reading the documentation here, it seems there's no direct way to deploy your files in Azure Storage at least as of answering this question. Even for Amazon S3, they are mentioning that you upload the files manually in a s3 bucket:

5. upload the files from the Squirrel Releases directory into the S3 bucket.

I guess you can do something similar for Azure Storage as well. I have not tried it but I believe this is what you would need to do (based on their documentation for Amazon S3):

1. Create a blob container in your Azure Storage account and set its access level to either Blob (recommended) or Public.
2. Update the package location on the UpdateManager in your application to use the blob container URL (https://account.blob.core.windows.net/blob-container-name).
3. Upload the files in blob container. There are many options for you to do that from using available storage explorers, or using AzCopy, or using Azure PowerShell/CLI tools or writing code yourself by using any of the available SDKs.