Documentation outdated for version 5

[GeorgeNarcis]

We are currently using version 4.0.1 and want to update to the new major version 5.
We are currently using for setup the method AddAzureStorageCoreServices as stated in the docs here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/webjobs-sdk-get-started.

However after updating to v5 we get an error this method no longer exists and we don t know if we need to install another package for it or it was renamed/removed.

Expected behavior

Documentation should be updated to say how this method was replaced in version 5,

Actual behavior

We get an error after updating and i can t find any documentation on what changed or how can i update.

[timmkrause]

Same here.

[Andreas-Lehmann]

The Solution is to add the latest version of the Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host.Storage NuGet package (5.0.0 for now). This will bring back the .AddAzureStorageCoreServices() extension.
Hope this helps anyone with the same problem or to update the docs.

[shyamal890]

What is the purpose of .AddAzureStorageCoreServices I am asking because now we have separate components for Queues and Blobs with Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.Storage

So not sure if .AddAzureStorageCoreServices is even needed now. But would appreciate some confirmation here.

[fonbrauzen]

@shyamal890 I'm not part of this product dev team, but here is my AFAIK (when I asked myself the same question).
When your job is running it's:

1. creating short logs "started", "finished" on each run (visible if click on the logs button to the right of the job)
2. automatically running constantly the monitoring job

Eventually, you'll have a couple of JSONs stored in this storage account.
If you don't have this storage account - some of the buttons in the UI of the Azure app service will lead to errors, due to the absence of these JSONs (as far as I remember at least 1 above).
So think about this as a part of jobs infrastructure in Azure, but for sure they could work without this.