Question

I have an ASP.NET Web Application on Azure and want to move my static content – images, CSS to the Azure CDN.

I have over 100 image files being used throughout the application stored in a folder “App_Themes/img” …

In what way, can I minimize the effort in the move?

My current steps would be …
– Manually upload all files to cdn ..
– Manually change all urls to the cdn (using Ctrl-H, but still is time-intensive and not error free)
– Somehow manage the testing locally… (Add some code at every page to use a baseurl, depending on debug or release) …

Is there any way that I could add a new route, etc so that I don’t have to manually change the urls, as well as move between file-system urls and CDN to develop the application locally and deploy it.

Thanks a lot ..

Answer 1

What I did was added a config entry in the web.config:

and replaced path /App_Themes/SpringDoctor/images/ with <%=System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ImagesPath"]%>

And upload all images to the appropriate blob.