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jeff.magill-fleishman - 7/9/2012 9:23:21 AM

How to upgrade Kentico for use with newest Azure SDK

I am just starting to build a Kentico site with Windows Azure. Per the instructions in Kentico CMS 6.0 Windows Azure Deployment Guide, I downloaded the Azure SDK before running the Kentico web installer. I installed Azure SDK and ran the Kentico installer without any problems.

When I fired up the site (Ctrl-F5 in Visual Studio), I got an error saying something like:

The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference

It turns out that Kentico is looking for the Azure SDK 1.1 but the version that I obtained from Microsoft is v1.7. I tried removing the Visual Studio references to 1.1 and adding references to 1.7 but the Kentico assemblies are still looking for v1.1. I believe that I need Kentico assemblies compiled against the 1.7 SDK in order to get this to work.

How can I get Kentico to run with latest Azure SDK (v1.7 at the moment)? If that is not possible, does Kentico provide the Azure SDK v1.1 assemblies for me to download?

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jeff.magill-fleishman - 7/9/2012 9:41:44 AM

RE:How to upgrade Kentico for use with newest Azure SDK

I should note that I have seen this post http://devnet.kentico.com/Forums/f56/t25531/Azure-SDK-1-6.aspx and at no point do I ever see a conversion wizard. If this is the way to upgrade, can someone provide more details on how to start the conversion wizard? Do I get it in Visual Studio or in one of the Kentico Management apps?

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kentico_radekm2 - 7/10/2012 1:17:33 AM

RE:How to upgrade Kentico for use with newest Azure SDK

Hello.

Kentico CMS is not developer of Azure SDK. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/sdk/. It is one of prerequisites, but it is Microsoft software, so I would recommend checking their web site and mainly the URL I wrote. More info can be found at http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/azureguide/prerequisites_limitations.htm.

As for a conversion wizard, it should be started automatically when you will try to load the project from older SDK version. Anyway, further info can be found at http://thinkfirstcodelater.com/blog/?p=1336.

Please note I do not refer to Kentico links, as this is 3rd party component.

Best Regards,
Radek Macalik

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jeff.magill-fleishman - 7/10/2012 8:30:38 AM

RE:How to upgrade Kentico for use with newest Azure SDK

Thanks Radek. I understand that Microsoft Azure is not a Kentico product. My conflict is that the Kentico 6.0 web installer produced a site that is dependant on v1.1 of the Azure SDK and v1.1 is no longer available from MS as far as I can tell. Since Kentico is has not updated the installer to produce v1.7 sites and they have not provided clear upgrade paths to newer versions, it stands to reason that Kentico still expects people to be running v1.1 of the SDK. Since Microsoft doesnt distribute v1.1 anymore (as far as I can tell), where else can I turn to get a copy of the Azure SDK except Kentico who apparently only supports v1.1?

At no point do I ever see a conversion wizard - not when I open the project in Visual Studio, not when I open it or attempt to open it in any of the Kentico apps (Installation Manager, Service Manager, etc.). The Think First, Code Later post describes how to update the Azure SDK. That isnt what I need to do. I either need to revert the Azure SDK to v1.1 or upgrade the Kentico assemblies to work with Azure SDK v1.7.

The Prerequisites and Limitations documentation did not indicate how to resolve this situation.


Kentico Developer	kentico_ivanat - 7/14/2012 5:22:24 PM RE:How to upgrade Kentico for use with newest Azure SDK Hi, Kentico runs well with SDK 1.6 (from november 2011). You can download it here: SDK 1.6 Then you can run a default installation using: http://127.0.0.1:80/cmsinstall/install.aspx Best regards, Ivana Tomanickova


Member	jeff.magill-fleishman - 7/24/2012 4:26:03 PM RE:How to upgrade Kentico for use with newest Azure SDK PERFECT! Thanks so much Ivana. That was the link I was looking for. It's confusing how in some places it is referred to as "1.6" and other places it is referred to as "November 2011"

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