Serverless computing in Azure with .NET

The local.settings.json file

The local.settings.json file is an analogue of the app.config file in a conventional .Net application. This file contains the configuration settings for your application that can be published to App Settings in your Azure Function App environment.

The AzureWebJobsStorage and AzureWebJobsDashboard settings define the connection to the data storage and the logs storage accounts respectively. By default, they are set to the same value. All functions, except the HTTP triggered ones, currently require these connection strings to point to Azure even when the function is run locally. This is because the Functions Runtime uses Azure queues to schedule all triggers other than the HTTP trigger.

To run your local Function ...