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Create Azure Function App using Visual Studio - step by step guide

By Ashok Nalam on 08 Sep 2020 | Category: Microsoft Azure | Tagged: azure azure functions 
In this post we will see step by step guide on how to create azure function using Visual Studio, How to Run the function app locally in visual studio and How to deploy the function app to azure from visual studio IDE.
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Introduction

In this post, we will see step by step guide on 

  1. How to create Azure Function App using Visual Studio
  2. How to run the Azure Function App locally 
  3. How to deploy the Function App to Azure.

Create Azure Function App using Visual Studio

Step 1 - Open Visual Studio IDE from your computer
Step 2 - Click on “Create a new project
Step 3 - Search for “Azure Functions” project template and select “Azure Functions” from the results and click on Next button

Fig 1 : Visual Studio - Azure Functions Project template

Step 4 - It opens “Create your new Azure Functions Project” window. Provide Project name, select location to save your project code and click on “Create” button

Fig 2 : Visual Studio - Create new project

Step 5 - It opens “Create a new Azure Functions application” window. Select Azure Functions V3(.NET Core) runtime, HTTP Trigger, Storage account = Storage emulator and Authorization level= Function

    • Function Runtime - Azure Functions V3(.NET Core) [Other run times are Azure Functions V2 (.NET Core) and Azure Functions V1 (.NET Framework)]
    • Function template - HTTP trigger (you can select any trigger you want to create)
    • Storage account - Emulator (HTTP trigger does not require valid storage account whereas other triggers requires valid storage connection string)
    • Authorization level - Function (It requires functions app key to invoke function. Other options are Anonymous and Admin)

Fig 3 : Visual Studio - select Azure Functions template

Step 6 - Click on the Create button, with HTTP trigger function template visual studio creates below project structure and the key file is Functions.cs file which contains your function code.

Fig 4 : Visual Studio - Azure HTTP Trigger Function Project files

Functions.cs

using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;

using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs;

using Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.Http;

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;

using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

using Newtonsoft.Json;


namespace HelloWorldFunctionApp

{

    public static class Function1

    {

        [FunctionName("Function1")]

        public static async Task<IActionResult> Run(

            [HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Function, "get", "post", Route = null)] HttpRequest req,

            ILogger log)

        {

            log.LogInformation("C# HTTP trigger function processed a request.");


            string name = req.Query["name"];


            string requestBody = await new StreamReader(req.Body).ReadToEndAsync();

            dynamic data = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(requestBody);

            name = name ?? data?.name;


            string responseMessage = string.IsNullOrEmpty(name)

                ? "This HTTP triggered function executed successfully. Pass a name in the query string or in the request body for a personalized response."

                : $"Hello, {name}. This HTTP triggered function executed successfully.";


            return new OkObjectResult(responseMessage);

        }

    }

}

How to Run the Function App locally

Step 7 - From Visual Studio, Click on F5 and it opens the function runtime using Azure Functions Core tools. 

Step 8 - It asks to allow func.exe firewall exception to allow HTTP requests, click on Allow Access

Fig 5 : Azure Function Runtime - Allow Access

After some time, function runtime provides a local host URL. 

Fig 6 : Azure Function Runtime - with Function URL

Step 9 - Copy the URL from console, paste it in the browser and with the URL provide a name query string value to see the output.

Fig 7 : Invoke Azure Function - From Browser

Now Azure function HTTP trigger is invoked and provides response to browser.

Note: While creating Function App, we selected Authorization at Function Level but Authorization is not applicable when we run the app locally.

Deploy the Function App to Azure

Step 10 - From Solution explorer, right click on project “HelloWorldFunctionApp” and select Publish Option. It opens Publish wizard and from the target tab, select Azure.

Fig 8 : Azure Function Publish - Select Target

Step 11 - Select “Azure Function App(windows)” as a specific target. Click on the Next button.

Fig 9 : Azure Function Publish - Select Specific Target

Step 12 - Once you login to your Azure account in visual studio, it shows the existing Function apps to select from your subscriptions or we can create a new function app. Click “Create a new Azure Function” link

Fig 10 : Azure Function Publish - Create a new Function App

Step 13 - It opens "Create new Function App" window and pre-populates with few values

  • Name - Function App Name
  • Subscription- Select your Azure subscription
  • Resource group - select existing or you can create new one
  • Plan Type - Consumption (other plans are App service and Premium) 
  • Location - Location to deploy your app. Select nearest location.
  • Azure Storage - required for Function App

Fig 11 : Azure Function Publish - Create a new Function App with details

Step 14 - Click on Create button and it takes back you to Publish wizard and select Finish button.

Fig 12 : Azure Function Publish - Create a new Function App Finish step

Step 15- Click on Publish button if everything looks fine.

Fig 13 : Azure Function Publish - To Azure

After sometime, you can see Publish succeeded message from output window.

Fig 14 : Azure Function Publish - Succeeded

Step 16- Now try to access the URL from the browser ( https://helloworldfunctionapp20200908214911.azurewebsites.net/api/Function1?name=dotnetmirror ) you will 401 unauthorized because we defined Authorization Level= Function and function key is not passed in URL.

Fig 15: Deployed Azure Function App - 401 Unauthorized

Step 17- Login to Azure portal and navigate to created function. From Function Keys under Development tab, you can get Function Key of your App.

Fig 16: Deployed Azure Function App - Get Function App Key

Step 18 - Now try to access the URL from the browser with code={Function Key} (https://helloworldfunctionapp20200908214911.azurewebsites.net/api/Function1?code={function key}&name=dotnetmirror ) and you should get "Response" from your Function App.

Fig 17: Deployed Azure Function App - Access with Function App Key

Happy Learning on Azure Functions!

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