Data Protection Keys Not Persisted To Azure

I have an ASP.NET Core application hosted in IIS in an Azure VM. I call the extension method to persist they key to Azure but nothing is ever stored there and the application seems to still be using local keys. I followed the example here: http://intellitect.com/staying-logged-across-azure-app-service-swap/ exactly. As a matter of fact, when I test the code in a console application, persistence works fine. However, when I run the ASP.NET Core app with this code, nothing ever gets persisted to Azure. Any ideas why?

Calling @Html.Partial to display a partial view belonging to a different controller

I am developing an ASP.NET MVC 3 application, whose content pages have a common pattern of layout elements. However, because the login page does not follow this layout, I cannot place this layout in ViewsShared_Layout.cshtml. So I would like to add another shared layout, say, ViewsShared_Content.cshtml, and call it from the content views… but unfortunately … Read more