Azure Run/Publish Fail Reason or Exception Dump

Question

I'm wrestling with the Azure Deployment process. I have an application (many applications) that have run very-well-thank-you-very-much on my local machine, but when I publish and run them they often are "Initializing...." and then "Stopping..." because they've hit some error.

My question is: How can I find out what the error was that stopped it from running?

I want to be able to capture or view errors that stopped the actual deployment.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

This is problem is normally caused by referenced assemblies - you will need to check that you have set the "Copy Local" attribute to true for any 3rd party assemblies within your project.

See the following blog post for a more in-depth analysis of this issue.