Setting the AzureWebJobsStorage & AzureWebJobsDashboard in .net core 2.0 webjobs

[mattwoberts]

I've got a webjob, coded in .net core 2.0, that I'm deploying to azure.

I have AzureWebJobsStorage and AzureWebJobsDashboard defined as connection strings in my appsettings.json. In azure application settings for my web app, I define values for these 2 connection strings in the format:

DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=xxx;AccountKey=yyy;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net

Additionally, in my webjob code, I ensure the environment variables are set correctly with:

Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("AzureWebJobsStorage", configuration.GetConnectionString("AzureWebJobsStorage"));
Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("AzureWebJobsDashboard", configuration.GetConnectionString("AzureWebJobsDashboard"));

When I deploy this webjob and try to run it, it won't start, and the error is:

Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Failed to validate Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK Dashboard connection string. The Microsoft Azure Storage account connection string is not formatted correctly. Please visit https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=841340 for details about configuring Microsoft Azure Storage connection strings.

However if I then change my code so that my connection strings in my appsettings.json file and in azure's application settings are renamed to something else (e.g. WebJobsStorage and WebJobsDashboard), and then I set them accordingly:

Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("AzureWebJobsStorage", configuration.GetConnectionString("WebJobsStorage"));
Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("AzureWebJobsDashboard", configuration.GetConnectionString("WebJobsDashboard"));

Then, when I run these webjobs, they do run without error. But when I try to visit the WebJobs Dashboard, I see:

The configuration is not properly set for the Microsoft Azure WebJobs Dashboard. 
In your Microsoft Azure Website configuration you must set a connection string named AzureWebJobsDashboard by using the following format DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;AccountName=NAME;AccountKey=KEY pointing to the Microsoft Azure Storage account where the Microsoft Azure WebJobs Runtime logs are stored. 

I'm using the 3.0.0beta3 of the azure.webjobs.sdk.

Am I incorrectly configuring the webjobs, or is this a bug with the sdk?

[paulbatum]

Set them as app settings rather than connection strings and you shouldn't run into this.

[mattwoberts]

Sorry, but that doesn't work.

I can set an app setting, rather than a connection string, but then when I try to navigate to the web jobs dashboard:

The only way I can get this working is to create duplicate connection strings - so I create my 2 connection strings AzureWebJobsStorage and AzureWebJobsDashboard, and then I need to create 2 other connection strings called something like WebJobsStorage and WebJobsDashboard, and then use those in my code via SetEnvironmentVariable

[mattwoberts]

Played with this some more, and it turns out it's a duplicate of #1408 so I'm going to close this, cheers 👍