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Quickstart: Create automated integration workflows with multi-tenant Azure Logic Apps and Visual Studio

This quickstart shows how to design, develop, and deploy automated workflows that integrate apps, data, systems, and services across enterprises and organizations by using multi-tenant Azure Logic Apps and Visual Studio. Although you can perform these tasks in the Azure portal, Visual Studio lets you add your logic apps to source control, publish different versions, and create Azure Resource Manager templates for different deployment environments. For more information about multi-tenant versus single-tenant model, review Single-tenant versus multi-tenant and integration service environment.

If you're new to Azure Logic Apps and just want the basic concepts, try the quickstart for creating a logic app in the Azure portal. The Logic App Designer works similarly in both the Azure portal and Visual Studio.

In this quickstart, you create the same logic app with Visual Studio as the Azure portal quickstart. You can also learn to create an example app in Visual Studio Code, and create and manage logic apps via the Azure CLI.This logic app monitors a website's RSS feed and sends email for each new item in that feed. Your finished logic app looks like this high-level workflow:

Prerequisites

• An Azure account and subscription. If you don't have a subscription, sign up for a free Azure account. If you have an Azure Government subscription, follow these additional steps to set up Visual Studio for Azure Government Cloud.

• Download and install these tools, if you don't have them already:

  • Visual Studio 2019, 2017, or 2015 - Community edition. The Azure Logic Apps extension is currently unavailable for Visual Studio 2022. This quickstart uses Visual Studio Community 2017.

    [!IMPORTANT] When you install Visual Studio 2019 or 2017, make sure that you select the Azure development workload.

  • Microsoft Azure SDK for .NET (2.9.1 or later). Learn more about Azure SDK for .NET.

  • Azure PowerShell

  • The latest Azure Logic Apps Tools for the Visual Studio extension for the version that you want:

    • Visual Studio 2019

    • Visual Studio 2017

    • Visual Studio 2015

    You can either download and install Azure Logic Apps Tools directly from the Visual Studio Marketplace, or learn how to install this extension from inside Visual Studio. Make sure that you restart Visual Studio after you finish installing.

• Access to the web while using the embedded Logic App Designer

  The designer needs an internet connection to create resources in Azure and to read properties and data from connectors in your logic app.

• An email account that's supported by Logic Apps, such as Outlook for Microsoft 365, Outlook.com, or Gmail. For other providers, review the connectors list here. This example uses Office 365 Outlook. If you use a different provider, the overall steps are the same, but your UI might slightly differ.

  [!IMPORTANT] If you want to use the Gmail connector, only G-Suite business accounts can use this connector without restriction in logic apps. If you have a Gmail consumer account, you can use this connector with only specific Google-approved services, or you can create a Google client app to use for authentication with your Gmail connector. For more information, see Data security and privacy policies for Google connectors in Azure Logic Apps.

• If your logic app needs to communicate through a firewall that limits traffic to specific IP addresses, that firewall needs to allow access for both the inbound and outbound IP addresses used by the Logic Apps service or runtime in the Azure region where your logic app exists. If your logic app also uses managed connectors, such as the Office 365 Outlook connector or SQL connector, or uses custom connectors, the firewall also needs to allow access for all the managed connector outbound IP addresses in your logic app's Azure region.

Set up Visual Studio for Azure Government

Visual Studio 2017

You can use the Azure Environment Selector Visual Studio extension, which you can download and install from the Visual Studio Marketplace.

Visual Studio 2019

To work with Azure Government subscriptions in Azure Logic Apps, you need to add a discovery endpoint for Azure Government Cloud to Visual Studio. However, before you sign in to Visual Studio with your Azure Government account, you need to rename the JSON file that's generated after you add the discovery endpoint by following these steps:

1. Close Visual Studio.

2. Find the generated JSON file named Azure U.S. Government-A3EC617673C6C70CC6B9472656832A26.Configuration at this location:

   %localappdata%\.IdentityService\AadConfigurations

3. Rename the JSON file to AadProvider.Configuration.json.

4. Restart Visual Studio.

5. Continue with the steps to sign in with your Azure Government account.

To revert this setup, delete the JSON file at the following location, and restart Visual Studio:

%localappdata%\.IdentityService\AadConfigurations\AadProvider.Configuration.json

Create Azure resource group project

To get started, create an Azure Resource Group project. Learn more about Azure resource groups and resources.

1. Start Visual Studio. Sign in with your Azure account.

2. On the File menu, select New > Project. (Keyboard: Ctrl + Shift + N)

   

3. Under Installed, select Visual C# or Visual Basic. Select Cloud > Azure Resource Group. Name your project, for example:

   

   [!NOTE] Resource group names can contain only letters, numbers, periods (.), underscores (_), hyphens (-), and parentheses ((, )), but can't end with periods (.).

   If Cloud or Azure Resource Group doesn't appear, make sure you install the Azure SDK for Visual Studio.

   If you're using Visual Studio 2019, follow these steps:

   1. In the Create a new project box, select the Azure Resource Group project for Visual C# or Visual Basic. Select Next.

   2. Provide a name for the Azure resource group you want to use and other project information. Select Create.

4. From the template list, select the Logic App template. Select OK.

   

   After Visual Studio creates your project, Solution Explorer opens and shows your solution. In your solution, the LogicApp.json file not only stores your logic app definition but is also an Azure Resource Manager template that you can use for deployment.

   

Create blank logic app

When you have your Azure Resource Group project, create your logic app with the Blank Logic App template.

1. In Solution Explorer, open the LogicApp.json file's shortcut menu. Select Open With Logic App Designer. (Keyboard: Ctrl + L)

   

   [!TIP] If you don't have this command in Visual Studio 2019, check that you have the latest updates for Visual Studio.

   Visual Studio prompts you for your Azure subscription and an Azure resource group for creating and deploying resources for your logic app and connections.

2. For Subscription, select your Azure subscription. For Resource group, select Create New to create another Azure resource group.

   

   Setting	Example value	Description
   User account	Fabrikam sophia-owen@fabrikam.com	The account that you used when you signed in to Visual Studio
   Subscription	Pay-As-You-Go (sophia-owen@fabrikam.com)	The name for your Azure subscription and associated account
   Resource Group	MyLogicApp-RG (West US)	The Azure resource group and location for storing and deploying your logic app's resources
   Location	Same as Resource Group	The location type and specific location for deploying your logic app. The location type is either an Azure region or an existing integration service environment (ISE). For this quickstart, keep the location type set to Region and the location set to Same as Resource Group. Note: After you create your resource group project, you can change the location type and the location, but different location type affects your logic app in various ways.

3. The Logic Apps Designer opens a page that shows an introduction video and commonly used triggers. Scroll down past the video and triggers to Templates, and select Blank Logic App.

   

Build logic app workflow

Next, add an RSS trigger that fires when a new feed item appears. Every logic app starts with a trigger, which fires when specific criteria is met. Each time the trigger fires, the Logic Apps engine creates a logic app instance that runs your workflow.

1. In Logic App Designer, under the search box, select All. In the search box, enter "rss". From the triggers list, select this trigger: When a feed item is published

   

2. After the trigger appears in the designer, finish building the logic app by following the workflow steps in the Azure portal quickstart, then return to this article. When you're done, your logic app looks like this example:

   

3. Save your Visual Studio solution. (Keyboard: Ctrl + S)

Deploy logic app to Azure

Before you can run and test your logic app, deploy the app to Azure from Visual Studio.

1. In Solution Explorer, on your project's shortcut menu, select Deploy > New. If prompted, sign in with your Azure account.

   

2. For this deployment, keep the default Azure subscription, resource group, and other settings. Select Deploy.

   

3. If the Edit Parameters box appears, provide a resource name for your logic app. Save your settings.

   

   When deployment starts, your app's deployment status appears in the Visual Studio Output window. If the status doesn't appear, open the Show output from list, and select your Azure resource group.

   

   If your selected connectors need input from you, a PowerShell window opens in the background and prompts for any necessary passwords or secret keys. After you enter this information, deployment continues.

   

   After deployment finishes, your logic app is live in the Azure portal and runs on your specified schedule (every minute). If the trigger finds new feed items, the trigger fires, which creates a workflow instance that runs your logic app's actions. Your logic app sends email for each new item. Otherwise, if the trigger doesn't find new items, the trigger doesn't fire and "skips" instantiating the workflow. Your logic app waits until the next interval before checking.

   Here are sample emails that this logic app sends. If you don't get any emails, check your junk email folder.

   

Congratulations, you've successfully built and deployed your logic app with Visual Studio. To manage your logic app and review its run history, see Manage logic apps with Visual Studio.

Add new logic app

When you have an existing Azure Resource Group project, you can add a new blank logic app to that project by using the JSON Outline window.

1. In Solution Explorer, open the <logic-app-name>.json file.

2. From the View menu, select Other Windows > JSON Outline.

3. To add a resource to the template file, select Add Resource at the top of the JSON Outline window. Or in the JSON Outline window, open the resources shortcut menu, and select Add New Resource.

   

4. In the Add Resource dialog box, in the search box, find logic app, and select Logic App. Name your logic app, and select Add.

   

Clean up resources

When you're done with your logic app, delete the resource group that contains your logic app and related resources.

1. Sign in to the Azure portal with the same account used to create your logic app.

2. On the Azure portal menu, select Resource groups, or search for and select Resource groups from any page. Select your logic app's resource group.

3. On the Overview page, select Delete resource group. Enter the resource group name as confirmation, and select Delete.

   

4. Delete the Visual Studio solution from your local computer.

Next steps

In this article, you built, deployed, and ran your logic app with Visual Studio. To learn about managing and performing advanced deployment for logic apps with Visual Studio, see these articles:

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Manage logic apps with Visual Studio