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I have created a VB.NET Windows Form desktop application in Visual Studio 2019. The application accesses an Azure SQL DB for retrieval of data only. I would like to migrate the application to Azure such that it could be accessed by multiple subscribed customers. I have tried to use the File Share approach but being a Comcast customer, port 445 is not available. The application uses a third-party license server / verification scheme, yet if this same capability can be provided within the Azure framework that would make the overall implementation cleaner. I am looking for advise and possible code / instructions as to how to accomplish this objective. Any and all help is greatly appreciated! Thank you.
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"Azure" is a very big concept with many, many options. What EXACTLY would you want to do?
For example, you can email a subscriber your desktop app, and you're done.
Or maybe you want to somehow morph this desktop app into a webapp so it can be run by any browser. Fat chance.
Or maybe you want to spin up a VM for each subscriber
Or any of a myriad of options. You need to be more specific if you want more specific guidance.
Hi there,
You can try the Azure App Service Migration Assistant. The migration of your .NET Framework web apps to the cloud with minimal or no code changes.
This might be helpful for you https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/cloud/migrate-to-azure
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@Limitless Technology @John Korchok
Thank you for the replies (John/Limitless). It seems that when I look up migration of .NET framework, all of the examples, videos, etc seem to refer to web applications ie. ASP.NET. My understanding is that .NET refers to the entire family of .NET programming languages but apparently the majority of references to migration cite ASP.NET. It's perhaps the jargon but I see where I can migrate .NET to NET 5 but I am not convinced I'm following the correct path. Just to clarify, I have a stand-alone VB.NET desktop windows form application which accesses an Azure SQL DB to retrieve data. I would like to migrate the VB.NET desktop WForm app to Azure so that others can use this based on a subscription (license). Thank you for your time and any help is greatly appreciated! Ken
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Did you ever find a resolution to this?: Migrate VB.NET Windows Desktop App to Azure. Looking to do the same thing. Thank you, TS.
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Did you find the solution? I have similar requirement and finding info only for webapp migration.
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I have the same question. I have winform which I am trying to pusblish to azure app service. Is it possible?
Did you ever find a resolution to this?: Migrate VB.NET Windows Desktop App to Azure. Looking to do the same thing. Thank you, TS.
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