Download App Content for Functions

It can come in handy to download functions from the Azure Portal. Click on your function app and click button [Download app content].

If the download is not activated, go to Settings / Advanced / Content Settings / Popups / Allow (in Google Chrome). A file will be downloaded without a file extension. Manually add .zip to the file name. Now you will have a zip file with the contents of your function app. In Visual Studio you will have a project template Azure Functions under Cloud. If not, check if Azure Functions and Web Job Tools is installed under Tools / Extensions and Updates.

Create an empty solution, add the downloaded project file with the functions.

• Benefits of developing functions in Visual Studio:
• Edit, build, and run functions on your local development computer.
• Publish your Azure Functions project directly to Azure.
• Use WebJobs attributes to declare function bindings directly in the C# code instead of maintaining a separate function.json for binding definitions.
• Develop and deploy pre-compiled C# functions. Pre-complied functions provide a better cold-start performance than C# script-based functions.
• Code your functions in C# while having all of the benefits of Visual Studio development.

Further information: docs.microsoft.com

Download from GitHub

Strange enough, I couldn’t figure out how to download source code from GitHub. It’s actually easy. When you are on a project page, you can press the ‘Download ZIP’ button which is located under the “Clone or Download” drop down:

This allows you to download the most recent version of the code as a zip archive.

[box type=”info”] If you are not seeing the download button, it is likely because you aren’t on the main project page. To get there, click on the left-most tab labeled “<> Code”. [/box]