Physical location of RoleEntryPoint

Question

Hi,

must the RoleEntryPoint derived class be part of the web/worker role project. Or is it sufficient to just include the class in some referenced project (like an assembly in the /bin directory)?

thanks

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Dominick Baier | thinktecture | http://www.leastprivilege.com

Answer 1

Hi Dominick,

The location of the role entry point DLL is specified in the cspack command line.

   /role:<RoleName>;[<RoleBinariesDirectory>];[<RoleEntryPointDLL>]

Buf if you are using Visual Studio, I suppose it assumes that the entry point is located in the role project. I don't think that there's a way to override this, but I could be wrong.

 

 

Answer 2

Thanks. Didn't know that!

Anynone with an idea how to accomplish that in VS?

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Dominick Baier | thinktecture | http://www.leastprivilege.com

Answer 3

This post by Jim Nakashima has some pointers that may be useful.

Answer 4

Dominick,

You can use a post build event to replace the assembly name in the __entrypoint.txt file, azure will use this information to look for a class that inherits from RoleEntrypoint.

Kind regards,
Yves

Answer 5

I just remembered this old post that you might find useful.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsazure/thread/fc5d5eb0-956a-4374-b650-abba417222c2