I currently have 3 projects that are all uploaded to Azure in the same role. Each of these projects contains AjaxControlToolkit.dll which is 6MB.
Hence every upload I do, means 18Mb is instantly taken up with uploading this dll, which I haven’t changed in about 1 year.
Is there anyway for DLL’s to be retreived from a storage location and added into the project at Azure’s end? Or open to any other suggestions to reduce the upload of these DLL’s.
Yes, you indeed can download the .dll from storage – in Visual Studio Solution Explorer tree set “copy local” to “False” to exclude the .dll from the service package. Then in a startup task or inside OnStart() download the file and put it into
bin.