If I delete a resource group, it immediately is removed from the tree view on the left pane (even if the deletion fails). Should it track if the deletion was successful? (by following 202?)

Could be as simple as changing the string to 'Azure Resource Explorer (beta)', or maybe throw in a 'beta' png.

Some user accounts have multiple resources, and drilling through can be time consuming. This'll be a quick way to narrow the set of things to work with

e.g. can be some toggle to show all providers/resource types, allowing for example to create a Webfarm in a new RG.

Would be really cool if we could stand at either a Resource Group or a specific resource and export it as a ARM template.

As I understand, for Swagger, we just get a JSON file that describes the API. Then the idea is that the same model we use today can be produced from that JSON. Then the rest is identical.

e.g. the ARM path is:

https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{sub}/resourceGroups/Default-Web-WestUS/providers/Microsoft.Insights/alertrules/CPUHigh%20TmpCloudDeploy?api-version=2014-04

The Explorer browser path is:

https://{explorer domain}/manage/subscriptions/{sub}/resourceGroups/Default-Web-WestUS/providers/Microsoft.Insights/alertrules/CPUHigh%2520TmpCloudDeploy

But trying to request this ails with a 404. It looks like the encoded space is confusing it.

Retrieve a storage account, i.e., /resourceGroups/my-group/providers/Microsoft.ClassicStorage/storageAccounts/mystorage, works fine. Trying to drill down into the services, i.e., /resourceGroups/my-group/providers/Microsoft.ClassicStorage/storageAccounts/mystorage/services, spins forever. Fiddler shows a 400 Bad Request coming back.

Though we don't know whether PUT will try, it very well might, and in the absence of spec, we should let the user try it if they think it should work. At worst, they'll get a 404.

If I have a RG with only websites in it, I cant browse to say the "clasic.storage" RP to create a new storage resource within that RG.

This limits discoverability of features/functionality

Any list, when it has more than a few elements, is a pain to use if it's not sorted alphabetically.

Steps:

• click on a Resource Group
• Go to the second tab and click Delete

Result: you're still looking at the Delete button for the RG you just asked to delete, so it feels like something went wrong.

Wondering if trying to preserve tab is more trouble than it's worth...

e.g. a link in the top right corner that says "give feedback" and goes to https://github.com/projectkudu/ARMExplorer/issues/new

Currently if the content in the text editor is long, the whole right part of the page scrolls. this is happening because I am setting the editor maxLines to Infinity.

Issues with that:

• Performance: ace ends up rendering the whole document rather than what's currently visible, which may affect large documents load time and general page responsiveness
• keyboard controls (arrows, Home, End, etc) don't work because the editor doesn't know what's visible and what's not.
• the tabs section at the top disappears when you scroll

Benefits:

• when you scroll the whole right section, you get a bigger editor area.

The alternative is to have the editor itself scrollable, that pretty much the opposite of what's above.

Thoughts?

e.g. VMs support:

/subscriptions/{sub}/resourceGroups/{rg}/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/{mv}?api-version=2015-05-01-preview&$expand=instanceView

expand=instanceView means include the optional instanceView property in the response payload.

Potentially, explorer could turn that into a checkbox that turns on or off expand=instanceView in the path.

Would reduce the annoyance for users who don't want readonly.

Wondering if that would feel more 'right'. i.e. horizontal panel taking up either the entire space, or maybe only below the right pane (i.e. not under the tree). Thoughts?

Today, if a resource group contains thousands of sites, the UI will not behave well. We should find a way to handle this, e.g. by only showing the first 200 items by default.

Paging support in the underlying API can play a part there, though it's not yet implemented for Websites.

This is a phenomenal product. Well done.

Is there a similar experience for the Service Management API (original portal)? E.g. the https://{bla}.blob.core.windows.net/ API documented at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee460799.aspx ? I can't seem to discover how to start up / shut down VMs in the Microsoft.ClassicCompute/virtualMachines nodes in the same way I see at https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/jj157189.aspx.

I think we need to come up with a list of what's expected to find in analytics or telemetry for both client and server scenarios.

We have GET and PUT, so we may as well support DELETE! e.g. I created a JobsCollection, but couldn't delete it.

So it gets to the DB list GET and that works fine:

https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{sub}/resourceGroups/Default-SQL-WestUS/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/qfhzpobzl2/databases?api-version=2014-04-01

returns

{
  "value": [
    {
      "id": "/subscriptions/{sub}/resourceGroups/Default-SQL-WestUS/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/qfhzpobzl2/databases/master",
      "name": "master",
      "type": "Microsoft.Sql/servers/databases",
      etc...

But when I click on a specific DB, it gets really confused and queries this path:

https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/{sub}/resourceGroups/Default-SQL-WestUS/providers/Microsoft.Sql/servers/master/databases/qfhzpobzl2?api-version=2014-04-01

Notice how it has /servers/master/databases/qfhzpobzl2, reversing the server name and db name! The ID that got returned from the list GET is actually correct.

Totally busted. Like the templates are not expanding, and it's displaying things like {{ treeControl.get_selected_branch().label }}.

I have 2 subscriptions under 2 different live id, having a log-out button would help switch between accounts without having to open in-private browsers etc...

Calling /subscriptions/{sub}/resources?api-version=2014-04-01 returns a list of all registered resources in the sub. e.g. entries look like:

/subscriptions/{sub}/resourceGroups/Default-Web-NorthEurope/providers/microsoft.insights/components/MvcApp
/subscriptions/{sub}/resourceGroups/Default-Web-NorthEurope/providers/Microsoft.Web/serverFarms/DefaultServerFarm
/subscriptions/{sub}/resourceGroups/Default-Web-NorthEurope/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/MySite

This can be used as follows:

• the first time a subscription node is expanded, we make a request to the server, which gets the resource list for that sub, and pre-processes it into the following data structure:

    /subscriptions/{sub}/resourceGroups/Default-Web-NorthEurope: {
        "microsoft.insights": [
            "components"
        ],
        "Microsoft.Web": [
            "serverFarms",
            "sites"
        ]
    }

Then in the UI, when a specific RG is expanded, we use this data to populate the list of providers, instead of the 'global' list.

Note that in addition to this, we'll need to query the list of registered resource types so that we can get the correct API version. That part can be done as part of the global metadata on the first request.

The text is a little too close to the buttons.

I think it's because after clicking on 'show all', we end up in a state where no node is selected.
We can either make sure 'show all' select a node after refreshing the tree or make search handle that condition. I prefer the former.

If I look under https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/MySubID/resourceGroups/StreamAnalytics-Default-Central-US and list providers I would expect to see Microsoft.StreamAnalytics. But it isn't listed. Any idea what's going on there? Can you test this on your subscription after creating a Stream Analytics job? Is that because Stream Analytics is in public preview at this moment?

Support setting the whole portal in a ReadOnlyMode where no PUT, POST, or DELETE operations are allowed.

It seems to think that it's already there and does nothing.

It should just open what it needs, and leave what's already open.

When doing a long-running operation like resourceGroups/X/providers/Microsoft.Web/sites/Y/slots/Z/slotsswap that has a x-ms-request-id, it'd be nice to automatically have the route to get its current status

The providers list under my subscription is incomplete; it is not showing all the various providers that are available. Curiously, the providers list under the resource groups is exhaustive.

e.g. things like slot swap require params (other the slot).

e.g. you make a PUT call, and some pane shows you exactly what the code would look like in C# or Java (or whatever language we have SDKs for). Possibly even PowerShell using the low level CmdLets (high level would be hard as there is no metadata for the flags, ...).

All requests fail with a variant of this:

{
    "data": "",
    "status": 0,
    "config": {
        "method": "GET",
        "transformRequest": [
            null
        ],
        "transformResponse": [
            null
        ],
        "url": "api/subscriptions/9033bcf4-c3c2-4f82-9e98-1cc531f1a8a8/resourceGroups",
        "headers": {
            "Accept": "application/json, text/plain, */*"
        }
    },
    "statusText": ""
}

I'm guessing the token needs a refresh or something like that. Not a huge deal, as refreshing page fixes it.

Often time I need to copy content and paste somewhere else, it is not easy to do so. Ctrl-A doesn't work as I want - it selects everything. If we could support Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V, that would do too.

Right now, we have hard coded references (here). Would be nice to move away from that so it's just a drop in model.

And later, it will be a drop in model based on Swagger (per #10).

To make things a bit less confusing, it could work like this:

• when doing a GET, to get a readonly pane that has exactly what came back from the request
• to make changes, you click a button to go into 'edit mode', at which point we yank the readonly props, and shows the 'ghost' entries
• when we don't have spec metadata, the edit mode would just be what came back from GET, and you're on your own (best we can do)

We can the metadata from the first user. If the second user has additional providers they're registered with, we don't have the metadata for them.

e.g. it could support https://resources.azure.com/microsoft.com/subscriptions/etc... to make the directory explicit.

Make sure to confirm on delete. Also special case deleting a resourceGroup to indicate that it might contain more resources than currently shown in ARMExplorer

Steps:

• create two resources groups, rg1 and rg2 (not from Explorer; I used ARMClient)
• Go to rg1 and click delete
• Without letting it complete, click on rg2 in the tree

Result: when the delete completes, rg2 gets yanked from tree instead of rg1. Closing and reopening resourceGroups node restores things.

Seems it assumes that whatever node you're on when the deletion completes is the one that was deleted, which is not always the case.