How to import azure app configuration to local visual studio?

Question

This might be a silly question.

I have an azure web app and an azure function app running. Both are written in .net

I want to debug the application in the local visual studio with the configuration values from the Azure portal.

How can I download the azure configuration for the web app service and function to use in local VS? Manually copying takes a lot of time and is error-prone.

Directly copying using advanced editing is not giving configuration in a correct format.

Answer 1

After a workaround on this, I found a way by exporting app service configuration to app configuration store and then exporting from there to local file.

There is an import/export option in the App configuration store for each app configuration you created.

Goto Import/export , choose your source and target locations and click on apply as shown:

Imported keys and values from Azure App service to app configuration first and then import from app configuration store to local file in json format.

Retrieved key-values to local folder:

You can also use Az CLI command to export configuration from Azure app service.

az appconfig kv export --name <Appconfiguration> --appservice-account <appservice> -d file --path "C:\temp\filename.json" --format json

Alternatively, You can read configuration from the App configuration store by using builder configuration code as detailed in MSDoc.