How to open an existing azure function in visual studio?

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I'm pretty new to Azure and using the portal, wrote an Azure Function. Now I would like to continue working on it using Visual Studio 2017. I can't seem to find a way to open/edit this existing function in Visual Studio though.

I'm sure I could create a new Azure Function in VS, copy code over, setup/connect to storage, etc. and deploy a new instance and delete the current instance, but would like to avoid that.

Ideally, was hoping there was some kind of open/connect to Azure account in VS, or maybe an "edit in VS" button in the portal, etc.

TIA!

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Well, as close as you can get to that is to go to the portal, your Function App, then click Download app content button and ask for Visual Studio solution:

Download app content

With Visual studio project

This will give you a zip file with Functions, including csproj file.

The problem is that portal functions are C# scripts (csx files), and Visual Studio isn't great to work with them. When you create a new Function App in Visual Studio 2017, it will make a precompiled function project - a normal class library with cs files.

Unfortunately, there is no automated way to convert script functions to precompiled ones.

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