Using an Azure KeyVault to separate out your secure App Settings

So I am following from this article today:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/key-vault/vs-secure-secret-appsettings

Create an Azure Vault

OK, that was easy enough.

Adding  Users

I added myself as a Access control, but as soon as I did I saw that my name came up  with inherited permissions (since I am already assigned as admin); that was just me being impatient and not waiting for azure to finish full configuration.

Adding Secret Key

Next step is to add  my secret Key, which in my case is the full connection string. Now the article alludes to the nested configuration and to replace : for — , not sure how that works yet so I will follow instructions.

For nested configuration settings, replace ‘:’ with ‘–‘ so the Key Vault secret name is valid. ‘:’ is not allowed to be in the name of a Key Vault secret.

Moving on.

Installation of Azure Services Authentication Extension for Visual Studio

Next is installing the Azure Services Authentication Extension for Visual Studio.
Downloaded it and ran it but I hit a roadblock as it said that the  extensions wasn’t compatible with my version of visual Studio.

5/13/2018 7:00:34 PM - 	Supported Products : 
5/13/2018 7:00:34 PM - 		Microsoft.VisualStudio.Community
5/13/2018 7:00:34 PM - 			Version : [15.0.27005,15.0.27230)
5/13/2018 7:02:33 PM - VSIXInstaller.NoApplicableSKUsException: This extension is not installable on any currently installed products.

Now that just doesn’t seem like a valid error since its looking for Visual Studio  version 15.0, but reading in the Q&A someone else reported the same issue as me and they mentioned  Visual Studio 15.4 and above.

Opened up Visual Studio and saw that  I was a  .5 versions behind. Alright, lets upgrade… but that takes forever.  Reminded me that when I went to  VS Live 2016 their big  push was “install Visual Studio in  10 minutes”. its been an hour  and I can’t even get an update.

OK, so it finally finished and I restarted my computer. I reran the VSIX  and got the same error

Left a  QNA question in the  link below to see if they get a chance; since this was a side attempt I will leave myself a reminder to comeback to this some time  this week.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=chrismann.MicrosoftVisualStudioAsalExtension#qna

See you then!