We are currently moving some instances of our application to Azure, but will still maintain backwards compatibility with existing instances which are not Azure hosted.
Is there a good way to detect the environment without installing the SDK on the non-Azure production server?
I've tried using:
if (RoleEnvironment.IsAvailable)
from Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime, and it works perfectly locally, and in Azure. However, I need to set the Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.dll to CopyLocal, and even then I get:
Could not load file or assembly 'msshrtmi, Version=2.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies
There doesn't seem to be a NuGet package, and I don't want to manually copy the msshrtmi dll about.
Perhaps there's a way of detecting without the dependency on Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime?