Clean Windows Azure Site

Question

My ASP.NET MVC project has been ported to an Azure site with an additional DLL that is not valid. This leads to the correct operation of the project. If a new website is created, it works great. Cleaning up the project locally and redistributing does not fix the problem. Is there a way to do a "remote wipe?"

This project is deployed directly from Visual Studio with a publishing menu item.

Answer 1

When you right-click and select "Publish to the Internet" on the left side, the settings tab will appear. Click here. Then expand the option in the File Publishing Options section and select the "Delete additional files" checkbox at the destination. (This will destroy what is already there)

Also can be found here: MSDN

Answer 2

Another trick to remove the entire Azure website, which can be done completely in the Azure portal, is:

1) Create a new empty slot for deployment to the Azure website. 2) Change it to the parent site of Azure.

This will give you an empty Azure website. If you want, you can delete the deployment slot later.

Answer 3

You can also delete files through Webmatrix (link in the footer on the Azure configuration portal)

Answer 4

• Download profile from Azure portal
  
  
• Import publish profile to VS
  
  
• Stop web application on Azure portal Stopping the web application ensures that existing files, including DLLs and other resources, are deleted after the publication is successfully published.
  This step may not be necessary , but an existing web application may have some DLLs that cannot be removed directly during publication, returning error messages, such as:

Failed to complete network deployment task. (Cannot perform the operation ("Delete File") for the specified directory ...

4. Post using "Delete additional files at destination"

5. Launch the web application again after publishing the publication successfully.

Answer 5

for Linux servers that you don’t get, CMD, then all you need to do is delete the deployment, and then create the deployment credentials for FTP and there you and the FTP client will clear the wwwroot folder yourself.

Answer 6

You can also use the console to delete any file. Kudu is a web-based tool that lets you see inside an Azure web application.

Two ways to access Kudu

• go here: https://yoursite.scm.azurewebsites.net/DebugConsole/?shell=powershell (replace with your real website name)
• Login to the portal> Services for applications> Your site> Development tools> Advanced tools.