Azure SDK Compute Emulator: Controller actions hit multiple times in ASP.NET MVC 4 App

Posted by Johan van Tonder on 5/22/2013 at 2:02 AM

Me and my team also experience the same issues that James does, i.e. Controller actions hit multiple times even though requests are made only once, and ALSO requests that hang and/or take extremely long to respond. We use Azure 2 and Azure Storage 2, Caching Roles, and Azure Diagnostics trace listeners.

Posted by James D. Schwarzmeier on 4/3/2013 at 8:56 AM

I am experiencing this issue as well, fairly consistently. My app runs just fine in Azure itself. It's only in the development environment that I have this issue. Sometimes controllers are hit multiple times, sometimes requests take a very long time to respond, and sometimes they never respond at all. In my case I have to use the Azure emulator because I make use of Azure functionality beyond simple web projects.

Microsoft, are there any updates on this? Is there anything I can do from my end to help diagnose a root cause?

Posted by Microsoft on 2/5/2013 at 1:36 AM

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Posted by Microsoft on 2/4/2013 at 10:50 PM

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Posted by sammy34 on 2/4/2013 at 10:55 PM

A far-from-ideal workaround that may work in some cases (i.e. cases where it is ok to bypass the the functionality of the Azure emulator and debug straight on IIS underneath) is also described on this page:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13779410/controller-actions-hit-multiple-times-asp-net-mvc-4-app-running-in-azure-emula

Azure SDK Compute Emulator: Controller actions hit multiple times in ASP.NET MVC 4 App by sammy34