Can't resolve Azure publish recycle hang due to missing assembly Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage 2.1.0.3

Question

Some info on the project: I'm attempting to deploy a simple azure cloud service with a single web role that using ASP.Net Identity and stores the user information in Azure Tables instead of in a database. To accomplish this I'm using the acidentalfish.aspnet.identity.azure
nugget package to help set up azure tables as a data source.
Everything runs fine when I run it locally, however when I try to publish to the cloud service it gets stuck in a role recycling loop. None of the error messages provided are very helpful. After some digging online I attached a debugger to WaIISHost,
and came across this error message:
System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage, Version=2.1.0.3,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition
does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)
File name: 'Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage, Version=2.1.0.3, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'
WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].
 ---> System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException: Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the
LoaderExceptions property for more information.
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes(RuntimeModule module)
   at System.Reflection.RuntimeModule.GetTypes()
   at System.Reflection.Assembly.GetTypes()
   at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment.GetRoleEntryPoint(Assembly entryPointAssembly)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment.GetRoleEntryPoint(Assembly entryPointAssembly)
   at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment.CreateRoleEntryPoint(RoleType roleTypeEnum)
   at Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime.RoleEnvironment.InitializeRoleInternal(RoleType roleTypeEnum)
stack trace producing errors produced before this one, mostly revolving around Output endpoint SecureWebRoleExample:Endpoint1 not found, followed by the claim that some WindowsAzure.Plugin class could not be found, and before that, that some setting couldn't
be found, but this error SEEMS like the most likely culprit.
The odd thing to me here is that none of my code is referencing 2.1.0.3, and I do have binding redirects set up redirecting versions 1.0.0.0-3.0.3.0 to 3.0.3.0, and I can't find a reference to 2.1.0.3 anywhere, so I'm not sure where it's coming from or why
it only has a problem when published.
Really the main issue is that it's stuck in a role recycling loop, and after days of digging into it this is the ONLY lead I have, since none of the logs seem to have any pertinent errors, and none of the other processes I've debugged have provided any pertinent
errors. If I'm not approaching this in the right way, or this error isn't as important as it seems, I would really like to know that too.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi BStephens,
I didn't find acidentalfish.aspnet.identity.azure in Nuget pakeage. But I followed stuartleeks 'scode
sample  and the
blog  to reproduce your problem, but failed. 
I follow this step:
1.Create a project and install leeksnet.AspNet.Identity.TableStorage form Manage Nuget Package.
2.Change connection string on webconfig and webrole setting
3.Change public AccountController() code, like this :
public AccountController()
: this(
new UserManager<ApplicationUser>(
new UserStore<ApplicationUser>(RoleEnvironment.GetConfigurationSettingValue("IdentityStore"),
id => id.GetHashCode().ToString()
It works fine in my local. I used Storage explore to check login user info.
But for this issue, I suggest you didn't need install Windows Azure Storage client library(https://www.nuget.org/packages/WindowsAzure.Storage/3.0.3
) from NuGet. If you installed it on your project, please remove it. Also, You could create a new project and try stuartleeks's blog step by step. Also, you could see this cloud service which I published on azure. You cloud access it use this IP(http://23.98.41.20:8080/
Any new info, please let me know.
Regards,
Will
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